Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medium, Lloyd conscientiously set out to adapt himself to it. His method was cautious: while retaining the outlines of the comic character with which his admirers had been pleased in silent pictures, he chose stories which depended less exclusively on the efforts of the star, placed part of the burden of getting laughs on the other members of the cast. The Milky Way, his fifth talking picture, is to date the most successful demonstration of this method. It is an entirely unsophisticated and uproariously funny farce built around the reliable situation of a milksop forced by fate...
...pays annual leases which amount to some $7,000,000. In good times,, when revenues were as high as $58,000,000 a year, P. R. T. absorbed the leases and still made money. In Depression, with revenues down to less than $35,000,000, the burden of lease payments resulted in a series of deficits...
...evident that constant repainting would be too great a financial burden on the University, but there is no excuse for dirty walls. Rooms that need it should be scrubbed during the summer. A water-proof paint for the bathrooms might be found more economical than ordinary wall-paint. Perhaps if a more stringent check-up were made at the end of each year suites would be better cared for by their occupants. Every dormitory resident deserves this attention to his living quarters, particularly since it would entail little additional expense...
However, since regular practice does not begin until after the winter holidays, the task of getting a team into proper condition has always placed an unfair burden on both the coaches and the members of the squad. For the men, it has meant grueling practice five days a week during the reading period and time trials during the examinations. The necessity of concentrating on the varsity squad in preparation for these contests has often prevented the coach from devoting the requisite attention to Freshmen and newcomers. Indeed, the result of the intensive early training has often been to make many...
...from the expostulations of Babalatchi in "An Outcast of the Islands" to the tragic portrait of Charles Could, the typical British man of action, in "Nostromo," Conrad mercilessly exposed that Anglo-Saxon habit of sentimentalizing one's desires, best known as the doctrine of "the white man's burden," which has built the Empire. No, Kipling ideals cannot be found in the work of Conrad...