Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter what Japan's voters thought. With the fighting forces, if not the voters, behind him, this sabre-rattler bellowed: "I hope the new members of the Diet will sacrifice personal interests and serve the higher interests of the nation, thus promoting constitutional politics and fulfilling the great task of assisting the Emperor during the present emergency period...
...fruit served must be cut and eaten on the premises, the waitresses have the added responsibility of seeing that no one slyly puts a grapefruit or two into his pocket, and then dashes out before the buxom valkyries of Unionhalla can catch him. This is an onerous and difficult task from which no one reaps any benefit...
...bestowed on the problem and their utter failure to move toward a solution, no matter how many voices have cried out in protest, it does not follow at all that seniors would be any more capable to solve Freshman problems than the men who are supposed to shoulder that task...
...them were herded onto boats, ferried out to the rocky, uninhabited Island of Oxia in the Sea of Marmora, there left to starve (see cut). For months their piteous barkings echoed across Marmora to the Anatolian shore. A few kindly citizens rowed out with food, but the task was hopeless...
Back to Manhattan last week went the traveling troupe of lawyers and court attaches whose task the past six weeks has been to ascertain facts about the domicile of the late Edward Howland Robinson Green in order to make possible the disposition of his estate, estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000 (TIME, April 19). Before tackling the 900-page transcript of Texas and Florida testimony, Surrogate Harry E. Owen of Essex County. N. Y. called for a resumption of probate hearings. More convenient for all concerned with these memorable hearings than Surrogate Owen's little office...