Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nervous scruples of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and Foreign Minister Sir John Simon. Once again the intuition of Mr. Baldwin proved sound. Overnight almost the entire London Press did a complete somersault. Broadcast was the happy thought that Britain was again to shoulder her white man's burden, this time to impose the Pax Britannica upon the Saar. As one London evening paper observed with jocular gusto, "The only essential is that the troops shall be the best and smartest we have and that they shall be accompanied by their bands. A kilted regiment would be most impressive...
...layman has a fresh point of view unwearied by the constant burden of trouble which the professional carries in his heart. If the professional were to do his job without the realization that it was only a part of a larger social plan, he would become lost in discouragement. It is the layman who, by keeping close to the concrete experience of the professional, can help to form this larger plan. A comparatively small body of social workers cannot bring our hundreds of communities along very rapidly in their thinking unless they have the layman's help. The forces...
...years of cartooning for many a newspaper including the New York World and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Macauley popularized Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick," won a $500 Pulitzer Prize (1929) for "Paying For a Dead Horse"-a drawing of a dead horse, a rider staggering under a burden labeled "Reparations...
Among the top rank swimmers, who are expected to carry the burden of scoring against such strong teams as Andover, Exeter, Mercersburg, and, late in March, Yale, are P. E. Arioli, D. C. Berizzi, E. J. Caldwell, C. G. Hutter, N. A. Limke, and J. B. Stevens...
...very long ago, you said yourself, Mr. Hopkins, that you recognized the fundamental principle that there is a limit to which the state can go in relief administration, and that at that point "private" charity must take up the burden. Any other solution, you claimed, would be completely un-American. Is it not slightly inconsistent to charge the very institutions that have of their own initiative assumed a share of the burden with snobbish evasion of their stint? --Yale Daily News...