Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such questions were forgotten by the tens of thousands that watched the remains of Chitta Ranjan Das pass through the streets of Calcutta to their last resting place. He was a leader in a movement to democratize India by distributing political power among the villages. It was a task the very nature of which must take generations to accomplish. But he had lived in an epoch when the East was striving in an economic sense to join with the West on equal terms. Vaguely, dimly, confusedly, the masses who had heard of Swaraj understood what the passing of the great...
...country and thus of the new leadership of the country? At once the Holy See forewent its policy of building only hospitals and asylums, decreed that a Catholic University should be founded at Peking, designated St. Vincent's Archabbey (Benedictine) of Beatty, Pennsylvania, to execute the task, called on the Church's faithful throughout the world and particularly in the U. S. to support it. To encourage the work and lend example. Pope Pius has personally contributed 100,000 lire and ordered the new University's Library to be supplied with copies of all Vatican publications...
...special devil by the name of Tittivillus frequented the monasteries of the Middle Ages. It was his task to gather in a bag the dropped syllables and mumbled words and omitted words and bad grammar of the brethren, as they took part in the service, and deliver them to the father of evil. On one occasion, he told a holy abbot that he brought his master each day a thousand bags full of 'failings and of negligences and of syllables and words' that were done or undone in the abbot's order in the course of their...
...other boats, but a speeding up process in the last few days before the race will undoubtedly be productive of more result when the timing has become perfect. The presence of six Freshmen in the boat this year, and only two substitutes from the University squad has made the task of the 150-pound mentor a difficult one, but a daily improvement in the form shown by the Combination oarsmen will enhance the chances for a Crimson win in this event on the afternoon of June...
...does not seem to have worked well at Cornell. Violations certainly do not seem to have diminished although there are no means for determining what the proportions are today compared with those of five years ago. What the Honor System means is that the routine and time-exhausting task of disposing of violations is taken from the faculty and handed to the students. More than 90 per cent of honor violations are reported by members of the faculty. If students do not report violations and only faculty members do, then why should not faculty members do, then why should...