Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government is not obliged to appeal for obedience, but has the right to impose it. ... We have come to agree with the sage formula of that exceptional captain of Christ, Saint Ignatius de Loyola, who imposed on his disciples silent obedience 'until death.' The task must be accomplished. We must win by our own strength alone...
This was no easy task. But the performance of the team against Clemson and Columbia showed how well it had been done, as Army triumphed 21-6 and 21-18. The team slumped against Yale to lose 15-7, but came back a week later to overwhelm Washington University of St. Louis 46-7, and went on to down Virginia Military Institute...
...their plan. Perhaps the best way to gain adherents for the scheme would be the formation of an undergraduate committee to parallel the Faculty Committee. This would mean that undergraduates would help to bear the burden of recruiting men to do the reading and take the examinations, a task that is ever so much easier for a student, a fellow participant in the examinations, than for those who administer the reading and questions, whose enthusiasm might by unthinking people be considered biased. A student committee made up of members of the group now taking the first examinations and other interested...
...with Felix Warburg as chairman, had been formed to relieve starving Jews in Central Europe. Out of the $80,000,000 spent. Felix Warburg gave $10,000,000. Then the Nazis seized the power in Germany and Felix Warburg threw all of the Committee's energies into the task of helping Jews move out of the reach of Adolf Hitler. While Felix helped thousands of Jews to leave. Max and Fritz remained, however, in Hamburg. Felix Warburg was no ardent political Zionist. He gave great sums to Jews in Palestine but he never favored setting up a separate Jewish...
...task of holding down a booth at the Automobile Show will be but a part of the work being undertaken during a field trip for students in the bureau, which began Sunday and will continue until Friday, November 5. By no means a joy ride, according to Maxwell Halsey, assistant director of the Bureau, the trip wil mean 13-hour-a-day work for the students. "When they come back it'll take 'em two or three days to recover!" predicted Mr. Halsey grimly...