Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of these general examinations is to relieve the student of the burden of keeping in his head an array of elementary facts, and allow him to specialize during Senior year in any branch of physics which appeals to him. In May he must take a divisional examination covering the particular work that he has been doing. He is not required to write a thesis...
...offices, is that to maintain intimate relations is a labor of Sisyphus. Annually the officers roll the stone up to the top of the incline, and the next autumn they must start to roll it uphill all over again. My final proposal contains machinery for putting some of the burden for these intimate relations upon the CRIMSON...
Freshmen suffered more from advertisers. In Matthews the average reported was nearly eight circulars per week. Financial bulletins were the chief burden of the upperclassmen...
...State ordered that men drafted as "auxiliaries" while holding jobs shall continue to be paid their full wages, irrespective of how much or little time police duties leave them for their regular work. Thus Germany's employer class was saddled by adroit Chancellor Hitler with most of the burden of supporting what amounts to an additional force of 60.000 fully armed Germans...
...cinema falls far below standard. Its good qualities are overbalanced by faults which one would more willingly attribute to Hollywood productions; the story is too complicated for a musical show, the setting is not romantic, and the little good music and the undeniably good lines cannot carry the whole burden...