Word: task
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hall. Mr. Ickes accused Mr. Tobin, "well wired for sound," of a grandstand "economy" play. Hotly, Mr. Tobin retorted that not he, but his predecessor, had asked for the new hall. From PWA he had accepted three Boston school additions vitally needed. "The President," said Mayor Tobin, "has a task difficult enough, and should not be burdened with a Cabinet officer who uses his tongue rather than his head...
...technical volume* containing the results of a lifetime's research in musical psychology. Psychologist Seashore's volume explains the psychological nature of consonance and dissonance, of accentuation in piano playing, of a singer's vibrato. "One is at once impressed," admits Psychologist Seashore, "with the appalling task which this inceptive science has assumed for itself, and how undeveloped the work is within this field." Dr. Seashore goes after his needle-in-a-haystack task in impressive fashion. But he does not succeed in explaining why people like music...
That every U. S. pressure group has its "publicity director" entrusted with the task of subtly influencing public opinion is a fact known to every sophisticated newspaper reader. Last week the subtle methods of a group of high-priced pressagents did not seem so subtle when illuminated by Senator Robert Marion La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee...
...that the hopes of the Irish exiles, of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," were to triumph. But the English fleet still ruled the seas, and French colonies in Canada and India were soon to be lost despite Fontenoy. In A Day of Battle, Sheean (Personal History) set himself the difficult task of both describing the brilliance of this victory and illustrating its historic unimportance...
...three years was pronounced cured. But in the air service during the War he had a minor crackup, got influenza and pneumonia, was discharged as permanently and totally disabled. Seeking relief from pain in utter exhaustion, he worked in bed at market studies begun earlier, finally completed the exacting task of charting Dow-Jones industrial and rail averages from January 1, 1897. These charts, magazine articles and his textbook covered his bed with fan correspondence from Dow Theorists. Then he started an interpretive-letter service, which is now prepared with the help of a staff averaging 25. Last week...