Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover dollars. If the Supreme Court upheld the gold clause, it might mean that perhaps $100,000,000,000 of bonds and contracts dated prior to June 1933 would have to be paid at the rate of $1.69 for every $1 borrowed. To most debtors such an added burden would prove disastrous. Furthermore, no matter what the outcome of the gold clause cases, business was face to face with what it always fears most-a threat to the status...
...cost of burial would impose still one more burden on the impoverished masses. . . . Even now with the greatest of difficulty are these able to provide decent burials for their loved ones...
...cost about $1,300,000. Strangely enough, the time and money were well spent. In its finished form, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is precisely what it should be, a rich and engrossing melodrama, concerned with heroism, pigsticking, torture chambers, spies and the White Man's Burden, which should delight all occidental audiences and infuriate Mahatma Gandhi...
Because of specific limitations affecting the use of large portions of our resources, the burden of the reductions (in our income owing to the depression) has not fallen evenly throughout the University. (He mentions research work, publication of valuable material, and the library, as well as the Departments...
Since the tutorial system at Harvard is simply the ultimate refinement of the small class system, Dr. Drury's theory is of immediate interest. If the large class is equally valuable, the University could be relieved of a needless financial burden. It is precisely the "deep personal intimacy" that Dr. Drury mentioned as one of the virtues of the private school, however, that justifies the tutorial system, and, to a lesser degree, the small class. Doubtless the learning that can be summarized in outlines and tested by surveys can be equally well delivered to larger groups, but the deeper, more...