Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative for eight years and Senator for six (until defeated in 1918 by David I. Walsh), runner-up for the Republican presidential nomination in 1916, has had four and a half years in the Cabinet. He became Secretary of War in 1921. As such he had the task of putting into effect the provisions of the National Defense Act of 1920, organizing the tripartite defense on which the U. S. relies-Regular Army, National Guard, and Reserve. Last Spring he was stricken with a heart attack, and has spent all summer convalescing. Soon he is to start...
...tremendous task faces Coach Knox of the second team and his assistants every year. It falls on the shoulders of the black shirts' mentors to teach their charges four or five different sets of plays each season. At present the second team is well versed in plays important in the Dartmouth attack. Next week it will be the task of Coach Knox and his assistants to teach the scrub players the rudiments of the Princeton offense...
Besides demonstrating plays of opponents of the first eleven, the second team plays a number of games with outside teams. To prepare the men for these contests is another task of the coaches. They have achieved success so far this season, as a fortnight ago the scrubs pinned defeat on St. John's Preparatory...
...domestic problems which resulted from the War. The chief of these was the care and relief of the afflicted veterans and their dependents. This was a tremendous task, on which about $3,000,000,000 has already been expended...
...deeper than appear on the surface. By transferring all intellectual activity from his living quarters to the college library, the student falls into the practice of limiting his reading to his courses and to the preparation of assigned themes; and casual spontaneous reading correspondingly suffers. Reading as a task takes the place of reading for pleasure...