Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London, May 22--Chance American taxpayers may yet be relieved of some of the burden of billions in defaulted war debts was intimated by an official in the British government today...
...excess of imports amounting to $200,000,000 and if this continues a few more years the Chinese Republic will be bankrupt." Then came the protest proper: "China ought first to readjust her debts before any more money is loaned. Unless such a readjustment is made an added burden will be placed on the Chinese which will tend to delay unification of the country and the attainment of order and prosperity. . . . This is what Japan cannot countenance as she realizes that it devolves upon her to be the Keeper of Peace in the Far East. ... If necessary the Japanese will...
Until last month there were only four live Komodo lizards in captivity, two in London, one in Amsterdam, one in Berlin. In 1926 Naturalist Douglas Burden brought two to Bronx Zoo, but they pined away in 40 days. Last week's arrivals were escorted by two young Harvardmen, Lawrence Tarleton Knutsford Griswold and William Harvest Harkness, who captured 43 lizards on Komodo in box traps baited with deer carcasses. They loosed all but eight, gave four by agreement to Java's Sourabaya Zoo. One of the remaining four died of seasickness...
...splendid teaching, there are many who overlook the point which President Conant, since assuming the presidency of Harvard, has so effectively maintained: that teaching and research are inextricably connected. While there are doubtless some few men who make inspiring teachers, and are yet temperamentally unfitted to carry the burden of investigation and creative study, such cases are rare indeed. There are few preceptors whose minds continual research does not enliven, stimulate and constantly refresh; and the most pitiful man on the faculty is the one whose natural talents were once great and whose personality was inspiring, but who has atrophied...
...Varsity baseball is shaping up. Just what Mitch thinks of his proteges would be impossible to say. Fred's conversation with the Press is monosyllabic, to say the least. But a few facts do stand out. One is that Captain Eddie Loughlin is bearing the brunt of the pitching burden. Despite his heavy assignments, Loughlin has done a beautiful job, and the chances are he'll be asked to do just as much work in the future as he has hitherto...