Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Kellogg last week accomplished the difficult task of naming an Ambassador to Japan. The choice fell on Charles MacVeagh of Manhattan...
...Heights. Failure to meet this obligation might have meant annihilation of the rebel army. Unfortunately the British were encamped at Kip's Bay, half way up the island, and it was necessary to distract their attention while Putnam made his march that evening. A certain Mrs. Murray undertook the task, gave a party, and kept all the enemy generals so drunk that Putnam's men slid by unnoticed...
English stargazers are moaning. Well they may. They met last week ? the Royal Astronomical Society ? on the day when a 40-years task they undertook in 1885 with the stargazers of the world, was to have been complete. The The Britons had completed their share of the work, but no other shares were done, some not even begun...
...treatment by all the dentists in the United States today that would be necessary to fill the solvable carious teeth of the children of America at the present time. The figures in the estimate are like some of the mathematical calculations of the astronomer?they stagger the imagination. This task is not impossible, but it is as colossal as it is important...
...opening game of the football season found Harvard in a new mood and with fresh spirit. In spite of the atrocious conditions the team entered upon its task with a show of confidence and determination which was refreshing after the sluggishness of some of our recent teams...