Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justify the struggle. His quest leads him to the tenement home of the Esdrases cowering beneath the symbolic shadow of the East Side New York skyline. The exotic beauty and youthful freshness of the young daughter, Miriamne, hypnotize him but he cannot give himself to love for the crushing burden of his disillusion and the gnawing vacuum of unfaith make life impossible. Track, the guilty gangster, has fallen into the customary, neurotic madness of killers; everybody connected with his crime must be silenced before he can feel safe. Mio and Miriamne are hopelessly entangled in this web of social injustice...
Much of the H.A.A. property is now costing more per capita than it was before the abolition of minor sports. Students today may only dabble in sports which they would like to pursue vigorously, and prospective dabblers are met by discouragement and lack of interest. A $10 burden, assumed collectively, would solve the financial difficulty, possibly aid President Conant's plan, and make available a large and much-missed number of sports...
...with the usual experience of bargain counters. The lack of pay, or, what is equivalent, an alleviation of their normal duties, is the most important cause of the breakdown of the Freshman Advisers. Throughout the history of the system the position has been regarded as a burden to be discharged as perfunctorily as possible. The man who really takes his work in this field seriously and meets with any measure of success, of whom Walsh Hammond, and Graustein are the most conspicuous examples, deserves to be placed with the Agassiz flowers as Harvard's outstanding rarities. Not until be receives...
Murdock made the following statement: "My decision to ask the President to relieve me of my double administrative burden, which I have had for five years, was made most regretfully, since I am heartily in sympathy with the President's policies and have enjoyed my share in carrying them out. However, my need for more time for scholarship and teaching have made it impossible...
...pervades hospital wards there was suddenly blended the invigorating perfume of beer, not faintly but distinctly and unmistakably. Silently the nocturnal visitor stepped from bed to bed, anxiously studying the sleeping faces, searching, searching. Apparently satisfied after traversing half the ward and arousing several light sleepers, he placed his burden on the foot of a bed, turned and stalked from the room...