Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...division of the crowd into groups, eating a quarter of an hour apart, is expected greatly to facilitate what would otherwise be a difficult task, the simultaneous serving of 700 people...
...risen from the springboard of his uncle's bank to be first Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Tex. He is rubicund yet determined; his rise has not been too meteoric; he has been heard to say that "launching the Federal Reserve Bank was a task entailing much drudgery on the part of the governors." Well pleased, his peers marked him as an ideal chief...
...citrous sort. "Abie's Irish Rose" has, however, become a phenomenon--the press notices boastfully say so--and, whatever it may deserve as a play, as a phenomenon it deserves the same serious consideration that we give to five-footed calves and weasel-faced canaries. It is our task to explain the unprecedented success which Miss Nichols' farce has attained...
...almost wholly upon the cooperation of those who possess information to be included in its pages. Requests for this information have already been mailed, and the secretaries of all clubs and other student organizations should see to it that the proper facts are supplied the publisher at once. The task of collecting the necessary information is enormous, and everything must be done to facilitate the matter, if the Register is to appear on time...
...Right Reverend Doctor Slattery and his committee, all mere men, seem to have approached their task of revision with prayer and fasting. They seem to have sensed the truth of the old Italian proverb: "In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to the Lord." In asking that the word obey be removed from the marriage service they explain that their purpose is to put the Church in touch with present day life, and then they naively add: "We are thus trying to make the service conform to the truth...