Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Prussia, where Pilot Post grudgingly took five hours sleep, vowing not to shut his eyes again until reaching Alaska. Winnie Mae thundered out of Moscow a half-day ahead of schedule. But an oil leak was causing the robot to misbehave and Pilot Post had practically all the burden of solo flying. Twice he got lost in dirty weather over Siberian wilderness, but found Novosibirsk by sheer skill and luck. He had stretched his lead to 17 hr. upon bounding...
...goal toward which Harvard has been moving is yet far in the distance. The purpose is still not generally understood, the machinery erected to effect it is ill-adjusted and insufficient. After today the burden of carrying Harvard College along the path to perfect education will be that of James Bryant Conant...
...known factors, and by careful estimation and reckoning of all chance elements, that life can be made for more than a favored few an opportunity for living and the enjoyment of living which it should be. In the creation and construction of such organization lies the future and the burden of today's graduates...
...Banking & Currency Committee (see p. 51) started not only a hot dither of excitement in the Press (see p. 38). but also a tax reform movement by a startled Congress. Plugging the leak in the law promised to net the Treasury millions of dollars of additional revenue, spread the burden of Federal taxation more evenly over the land...
Staistical information and indices of the effects of the depression will be included in the report. For purposes of analysis, students will treat separately manufacturing, industries, commerce, retail trade, mining, agriculture, forestry, public utilities and finance. The local tax-burden and financial position and policies of the local government, the general psychology of the community, and any evidences of social unrest, will also be considered. Analysis of depression measures will be undertaken...