Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relief from the crushing burden of armament which is each day bringing them more closely to the brink of economic disaster...
...from a bonanza, The Netherlands might be an economic burden to Germany. It is dependent upon imports for 30% of its foodstuffs. Germany can scarcely feed its own people. Most important, Dutch bankers finance with generous credits the largest part of Germany's raw-material purchases, and this trade would end when the guilder ceased to be the monetary unit of an independent country. Dutch neutrality was of crucial importance to Germany in the World War. Great shipments of materials passed through the Allied blockade -via the neutral Netherlands...
Brayton believes that most House men prefer to limit their participation intramural sports to one or two days each week, and that they would not wish to shoulder the burden of the intensified program suggested by the Council. "Cross country," he said "would be a farce for a man who practiced once or twice a week." It is true, however, that cross country would probably be retained along with track as a major sport...
...chief burden of mound chores is likely to fall on the shoulders of Walt Sickles and Mike Stehnach, with Jim Young and Ben Morse coming in for a bit of action too. Watch out for the Big Red. They may be tough by mid-season...
McNamara feels that the tax question is at the root of Harvard-Cambridge friction. In an interview yesterday he described Harvard's mushroom-like growth since 1920 as an increasing burden on a depression-ridden industrial city...