Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financing the athletic program. But for the immediate future there is reason to believe that ensuing seasons will see a substantial increase in the volume of football gate receipts. If such is the case, the wiping out of a cumulative deficit of $65,000 will be no great burden...
...interested crowd gathered, some one telephoned the police, and Patrolman McGinty answered the call to duty. With quick efficiency he gathered the animal in his arms--then the trouble started. Bawl on bawl rent the air; wildly the calf waved his spindly legs. Frantically the officer clutched his burden to his bosom. It was no use; there are limits to human ability. With a grant of relief Mr. McGinty dropped the ungrateful creature. "This is a two-man job," he decided...
...deficit on the same date last year. His budget message to Congress just one week off, he declared he had not yet prepared his recommendations, was waiting for last minute estimates on public works. As to the future, the President would make no predictions, preferred to leave "the burden of error to writers in the Sunday papers...
...street improvement, in 1927 he paid 97?, in later years nothing. Applying merely the old maintenance cost, the city hall was transformed from a dilapidated rookery into a first-class public building. More than 80 mi. of street railway were laid, miles of sewers, with little additional burden to the taxpayers. And Cincinnati began retiring its debt at the rate of $850,000 a year. More slowly, the social service and police departments were peeled of their incompetence and corruption. In the surrounding county, where Author Taft was elected attorney in 1926, only to lose in 1928, reform came harder...
...rule that humorists are uneasy and irascible in their private life. Ed Howe is no exception. Married in 1875 to a wife who bore him three children, he often found his family, like most of his friends, a burden. Behind their brick home in Atchison he built a two-room house in which he lived alone. Thirty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Howe were divorced...