b. An animal used in riding, driving, etc., as the horse and ass; a ‘beast of burden,’ a ‘yoke beast,’ a draught animal. [In some parts of England, beast in the sing. means spec.‘horse,’ while the pl. beasts, beastès, beass means ‘oxen.’]a1300Cursor M. 14963 Þ...
Formerly one sought the feeling of the grandeur of man by pointing to his divine origin: this has now become a forbidden way, for at its portal stands the ape, together with other gruesome beasts, grinning knowingly as if to say: no further in this direction! One therefore now tries the ...
Students attending marginal schools bear the greatest burden. Their schools use a business model that relies on federal student loan dollars to fill classrooms. Because schools have no accountability for their graduates’ poor employment outcomes, they are free todip ever deeper into the well of unq...
And don’t tell me that professorial teaching loads have become too burdensome. Another item gave me pause.The press releaseannouncing the Wake Forest program included this enticing remark from the law professor who co-teaches the classes: “Since we will have gotten to know the students, we ...
Will they not by and by be saying — Here, we are paying a great number of men for doing nothing: We had better give up all the civil business of our state with its powers to Congress, who are sitting all the year round: We had better get rid of that useless burden. That matters...
Wild animals were ferocious brutes, native people were "savages" and adventurers carried the white man's burden of civilizing the natives. All this was greatly exciting to the intended audience, though The Times retrospectively described the magazine as being about "brave chaps with large moustaches...
Mother Teresa's letter started our second 15 minutes of fame. The newspaper reporters, TV crews and DJ calls started all over again. The Big Time this time was a call from the producers of CNN's Burden of Proof. They wanted us to debate Mother Teresa's attorney on the show. Mother Te...