Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burden of responsibility for getting a medical excuse for missing any final exam lies with the student, Dr. Arile V. Bock, head of the Department of Hygiene, pointed out yesterday. In case of illness men must notify the Department of their absence, he said, quoting as follows from the official Regulations...
...heaviest burden in the first phase fell on the British First Army, which had been assigned the job of clearing the rim of the plain of Tunis and running out on to the plain itself. The First had done most of this job. The height known as Long Stop Hill (TIME, May 3) was firmly in its hands. One last hill, Djebel bou Aoukaz, known to the troops as The Bou, remained before the open plain. The hill was British one day and German the next. At week's end the hill was German...
...protection to Europe-bound convoys. With a chain of bases extending from the Canadian mainland across Greenland and Iceland to Britain, Allied long-range bombers would provide mile-by-mile protection and reconnaissance. The Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy had long been bearing much of the Atlantic burden; the appointment of Admiral Murray indicated that they will bear more...
Here was no lament that Russia was bearing the burden alone, that the Allies were slow to launch a promised second front. But here, too, was a subtler form of the old reminder and the old urgency: "Hitlerite Germany and her armies are shaken and are undergoing a crisis, but they are not yet defeated. It would be naive to suppose that the catastrophe would come of its own accord and as part of the present course of events. Two or three more such powerful blows are necessary from the west and the east...
While thousands on thousands of soft-handed, pale-necked civilians are beginning to learn the facts of animal and vegetable life, the great burden will still be borne by the professional farmers and poultrymen...