Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BOOK OF THE EARTH No. 2 of The Torchbearers)?Alfred Noyes?Stokes ($2.50). Poet Noyes of England has set himself the task, impressive in these days of composing these hymns to the torchbearers of Science. The first was Watchers of the Sky, to astronomers. Now are sung the naturalists, geologists, polentologists, evolutionists...
...Interstate Commerce commission began the mighty task of placing a physical reduction on United States railways. Most of the expense involved was foisted upon the roads themselves, although a minor proportion of it was met with Government funds. Down to the end of 1924, the Class I roads have spent $80,380,350; by the middle of last year the Interstate Commerce Commission had spent $25,597,543, with an estimated outlay of $510,000 more for the last six months of 1924. Up to the beginning of the present year, therefore, a total of $106,487,893 has been...
...Increasing our army today by new commanders who are ready to give up their lives without hesitation for the great tasks of freeing the laboring masses, we declare to the whole world that Soviet Russia is busily engaged in the stubborn peaceful task of reestablishing the national economic situation...
...Government of the United States has no ambition other than to aid in the attainment of these aims. . . . As delegates our loftiest hope is to promote the interests of peace. ... It is in this spirit that we consecrate ourselves to the task before...
...anchor at their boatbase, Etah, Greenland, unloaded their three Navy seaplanes from the stout ship Peary, and set about clearing and leveling the one steep little beach their harbor offered for a takeoff. Five Eskimo families were found in the "village," the men of which assisted in the arduous task of building skidways and tumbling large rocks aside...