Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this in all sincerity, the great middle class of this country . . . for its own preservation must be willing to subject itself to the taxes necessary to finance the additional emergency obligations incurred if they are incurred. There are no other alternatives. . . . The middle class must willingly carry the burden of saving itself from destruction, for continuous and prolonged budgetary inflation means its destruction...
...reason why the tavern should be kept from Harvard Square. However, I do not believe that any system permitting the sale of beer to persons over eighteen and other liquors to those over twenty-one would be advisable. It is too complicated, and would put a double burden on the store or tavern keeper...
...Budget Director is whooping it up again about the Burden of Government Extravagance falling upon the Middle Class Taxpayer. Perhaps Mr. Douglas will one day understand that the government's budget is not like the budget of an individual or a corporation; that the government controls the printing office and can therefore use it if it sees fit, whether under the camouflage of an unbalanced budget or under no camouflage...
...little red schoolhouse has given place to an imposing edifice in brick, equipped with swimming pools, hot lunch counters, and the latest thing in classroom furniture. Tedious studies have been sugared over by electric maps, bolls, lantern shows, and similar kindergarten bric-a-brac. Latin and Greek, classic burden to the juvenile scholar's soul, are dying slowly away. After all, they are dead languages, unpractical, and the children do not care for them...
...burden of expenses has been greatly relieved through the work of the Loan Fund. A man may borrow $300 the first year, and $600 the second. In addition, there are fifty-three service scholarships for poor men, not to mention numerous Alumni Club scholarships...