Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concomitant with these disturbances has been a period of tragically futile talk by the League of Nations, and a fantastically mounting burden of armaments for all nations. With painful irony new battleships slip off the ways while statesmen meet to discuss and disagree on navy reductions. What hope for peace while a revengeful Germany, a belligerent Italy, a suspicious France, an aggressive Japan, and a hated Russia prepare for conflict? The world outlook is certainly dark Yet, gloomy as it is, we cannot evade it by such ostrich-like attitudes as President Hoover's. There is no better prelude...
...revolt, is the most heavily farm-mortgaged State in the Union. The total debt on its land for 1930 was $1,098,000,000 or nearly one-third of its farm value. Every lowan carries an average farm mortgage of $445 compared with a per capita burden of the same sort of only $75 for the rest of the country...
...surprising that in a prolonged depression like the present there should be a revival of talk concerning the financial burden imposed upon the city of Cambridge by the presence of educational institutions with large amounts of tax-exempt property. The proposal that Harvard and M.I.T professors should contribute one-tenth of their salaries towards the cost of city government in lion of taxes upon the property of those institutions was perhaps suggested by the "voluntary" contributions already collected from Cambridge public school-teachers and other city employees. Such a proposal, however, in turn evokes other suggestions. One is that...
Some 7,000 new directors made the Directory last year, an increase of 15% over the usual number of neophytes. This was attributed to the "strenuous times" in which younger men were pushed ahead to ease the burden of oldsters. Leading the list of men with diversified interests was, as usual, Banker Charles Hayden with 82 directorships. Albert Henry Wiggin and Matthew Chauncey Brush tied with 47. Alfred Emanuel Smith listed seven. Leading those who sit at boardroom tables of subsidiaries and affiliates within one complex industrial empire was Albert John County, vice president in charge of finance and corporate...
...expense. There should be many more tutors than there are at present. But tutors cost money and must also be given some liope of advancement. The next greatest difficulty is not with the system but with the students. Most students, I suppose, do not care to assume extra burden of tutorial work without the corresponding benefits of college courses, credits. Hence tutorial work is likely to be regarded by them as an infliction rather than an advantage. For that reason I should favor your proposal in Question Eleven...