Word: task
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vote for the Fatherland!" In Prague, although the sweeping catastrophe was obvious, editors took up the task of putting as bright an aspect on the situation as they could. The optimistic vigor of President Benes remained dauntless. As the Chief Executive, he at once turned on every organ of propaganda and reassurance to persuade Czech refugees from areas in which plebiscites are to be held to return to the homes from which they fled under Nazi threats and "Vote for the Fatherland...
Moreover, University officers have the right to ask that undergraduates refrain from acts that will bring widespread discredit on Harvard and make their task more difficult than it already...
...with his two hands"! About 1920 the Appalachian Mountain Club built an extension to their Lakes-of-the-Clouds hut on the side of Mt. Washington. . . . Tom was one of several who packed building material one and one-half miles down from the summit of the mountain-no easy task-and assisted in cooking for the mountain climbers who occupied the hut while the work was going...
...Were King (Paramount). To a guileless cinemaddict the task of making Frangois Villon dull and respectable might appear Herculean. In If I Were King, Director Frank Lloyd and Writer Preston Sturges, no doubt aided by the Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly bad about If I Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the clich...
...this waste has a value; it shows him something dull or worthless or leads to a dead end. As Nock said further in the same article: "Useless knowledge . . . gains value only as it is forgotten. . . . So let no one be fazed by his inability to accomplish a scholastic task quickly. Part of his Harvard education is realizing that he cannot use every minute to a positive advantage. Yet he does use every minute well, because there is also a negative advantage. In wondering about the miles of knowledge which the University holds in its bosom, let him think...