Word: task
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a number of years in my present occupation and district, I am surprised to learn what my principal task is. And I deny it most emphatically. Multiply my individual efforts by those of thousands from Maine to California and I'll match our production record with that of the representatives of any other recognized old-line company. . . . And I am proud to have produced every year a very satisfactory number of contracts well up in four and five figures-dollars not cents...
English translators have generally found the Greek tragic poets too much for them, have produced tortured versions in an idiom neither poetic nor colloquial and almost impossible to read. In the joyless task of selecting the best, Editors Oates and O'Neill unaccountably passed up two excellent modern translations: Sophocles' Oedipus the King by William Butler Yeats, Euripides' Alcestis by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Otherwise, their handsome and handy collection presents all of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in about the best light available. More interesting to most readers will be ten "anonymous" translations of Aristophanes...
...article on the possibilities of football managing appears elsewhere in this paper, and all the other Freshman sports have managers, because--well, somebody has got to do the dirty work. Seriously, however, the Athletic Association has at least begun to realize that managing can be a profitable, interesting task, if its competitions are more humanely run, Freshman exercise credit is given for this sort of work...
...That Boy." Most of these changes enormously complicate the army's No. 1 problem in wartime: how to insure adequate supplies for easily assembled and quickly trained fighting forces. That task belongs not to General Craig but to a balding, agile gentleman whom older army officers call "that boy" in tones varying from awe to horror. Louis Arthur Johnson...
...Sacramento Valley, Judah was asked by his partners to testify that it was in the foothills, so that the company would receive $16,000 more for each mile of track. Unwilling to be a party to this miracle of moving mountains, Judah resigned, died soon after. This left the task of building the road in the hands of a drygoods merchant, a politician, the owners of a hardware store...