Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral C. J. Brown, "there will emerge vast numbers of walking people, consisting of women, children and the aged. Thousands of them walking, but a great number, even though they walk, will not live. During the immediately succeeding hours, and the dark days which follow, who will bear the burden of the professional care of the survivors?" He answered his own .question: civilian doctors. The Army doctors will be too busy...
Because of present crowded conditions in the University, one of the cardinal purposes of the House library should be to ease the burden on Boylston, Widener, and the Union, IN prewar days the Houses were designed mainly to provide a supplementary tutorial library, but times have changed. Because of the great demand, some Houses require users of the most popular texts to sign them in every hour so that others may have a turn; but it is hard to get much done when someone is sitting three chairs away waiting eagerly for the end of the hour. The University should...
...father nicknamed him "Mr. Hurricane." The simple outline of Mirabeau's doings becomes a kind of epic of frustration whose misery Madame Vallentin, engrossed in her psychological analyses, does not seem to appreciate. He was ugly, and so he was the butt of the brilliant nobility, and a burden to his father who was at first ashamed of him and then, as Mirabeau developed as a writer, jealous...
...regular man for each of the six Houses. On the regular each of the six Houses. On the regular guard's night off a swing man takes over the shift. And at 12:45 o'clock the night janitors go off, end the University police shoulder the whole burden of keeping order and guiding high-stepping students to their cubieles...
...activates a grudging smile, and once or twice even a warm chuckle. Levant's cynicism is two-dimensional: in his role and for his role. This, by all accounts, is a good thing, taking the mind off the pins and needles of a sleeping leg. Dan Dailey carries the burden of the show, and proves his worth as a song and dance man, but he falls short of equaling the Chevalier kind of one-man show. And that is what is most wrong with the picture...