Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That's a man-sized task for any football squad, and Coach Harlow had to give the boys their first peek at some Green plays and formations yesterday. Starting yesterday the boys had ten potential hours of work ahead of them for the week, but obviously the men who saw considerable service against Penn had to be excused early. They left at 4:15 o'clock...
Professor McLaughlin of the Harvard Law School has taken the Crimson severely to task for its stand against prominent men who have publicly supported the Allies. Based on the assumption that the present war is a holy crusade of angels against devils, he has charged that the editors of this newspaper have "hysterical inhibitions against the thought of war." He goes on to characterize all who stand for American neutrality as fatuous, emotional, and cowardly, and supporters of the Allies as the only true, hard-headed logicians. On the contrary, the Crimson pleads for an unemotional, clear-headed survey...
...Dumas Malone and Henry Nash Smith, President Conant has given the American Civilization Plan a new lease on life. After drifting along without unified direction since Professor Buck's resignation as chairman a month ago, the Plan is at last in efficient hands. Those hands have a clear task ahead of them, for they must resuscitate an idea which has all but perished from administrative neglect and unfavorable publicity...
...three lucking backs who generate power aplenty. They are all too big to become accomplished spinners so they just lower their heads and ram into the line for their yardage. It's much loss complicated that way, and there are three of them to alternate at the thankless task. So you'll see less spinning from the Quakers than from the Crimson, but more plays on a direct pass from center...
...came to no workaday hospital, devoted to textbook treatment of disease, but to a great temple of experiment, where even sober trustees are fired by the high task of ending body's tyranny over mind, To 45-year-old Dr. Putnam, as to the other bold, competent physicians in the Institute, the study of brain processes and the treatment of brain ills is a "bread-&-butter science." Deeply concerned with detours of nerve paths and battles of brain cells, he knows that a long chain of simple injections, or the sharp bite of a surgeon's knife into...