Word: task
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...task of George Ross Leighton in Five Cities is to restore the old landmarks which civic pride generally conceals. In his book tumbledown factories are landmarks, as well as the homes of the great. His heroes include failures as well as successes, suicides, people who bet on the wrong real estate developments, bankers whose banks have never reopened. He pictures...
...that the Associates plan will care for many of them, whether they may be able to be allied with Dudley, is a question at the present writing. The powers that be in the athletic world here, nevertheless, must fit these men into the competitive scheme of things. Financially, this task will be made very much less difficult by the Committee's plan...
...result of talks with him and opinions concerning his work which students have expressed to me, leads me to suppose that he has that rare kind of usefulness which I have described; that his teaching at Harvard has in a very real sense contributed to the necessary task of facing the present with whatever intellectual equipment both past and present can provide; and that Harvard cannot afford to lose...
...bench of revered professors was forced to judge a trying case. But it performed its task well, and its decision should turn to a newer and somewhat brighter page for Harvard's young men. If its liberalism was at one point restrained, it must nevertheless be lauded for the comparatively happy mastery of a terrible ogre...
Harvard's Eight Old Men faced a forbidding task when they embarked on their investigation of appointment and tenure in May of 1937. Not only because of the tremendous size of the undertaking. But also because they were required to hand down a verdict on the hopes and fears of men with whom they no longer had anything in common. They, the judges, were famed professors, secure in position and reputation, and peculiarly exposed to conservatism. The young instructors before the bar were strugglers in a morass of uncertainty and ignorance about the future...