Word: task
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest importance, and which should be carefully considered by everyone interested in the problems of education. They are, "At the boundary between school and college the risk of over-emphasizing the particular type of ability which leads to high grades in all subjects is ever present," and "The immediate task before us is the intensification of our effort, rather than an extension of our enrollment...
...steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall at 9:30, bolts down a few fried eggs, and then dashes for Widener, after having read the daily paper, looked at his mail, and generally dissipated...
...note, possessing it, and conspiring to pass it-the Justice charged them to consider the first point alone. Neither Attorney Leibowitz nor Assistant U. S. Attorney John J. Dowling had ever heard of such a procedure, but they made no objection. When the jurymen returned from this simplified task in the record time of an hour and a half, announcing that they had found Palmer guilty and Morosi innocent of passing the note, Justice Van Devanter proceeded to a further time-saving innovation...
Almost as difficult as the task of finding out who kidnapped Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. has been the subsequent task of finding out who was responsible for finding Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In 1932, New Jersey posted a reward of $25,000 for the capture of the kidnapper. Ever since Hauptmann was executed two years ago the State has been trying to decide who earned it. This week in Trenton, Governor Harold G. Hoffman announced ten recipients...
...free-style have been depleted by Delvalles' loss and Eral Wilson's leaving school, giving Charles Smith, a 2:25 man in the 220 and a comparable 440 swimmer, Bob Chapman, the task of holding up the distance departments...