Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliantly successful. As concerns the acting, there are many good performances, and a few extremely bad ones--but this is overshadowed by the imaginative power with which the director has conceived and executed his job. There are few, if any, directors in this country capable of handling such a task in such...
...great task, it is the cause of the toiling and producing millions. We are still in the minority. Our cause is still unpopular, for it opposes the established order of things and expresses ideas which are in advance of the times. Nevertheless, we will sweep into power and establish democracy on a worldwide basis...
...still before the Senate) and that he aimed to produce one "which will be absolutely sound, as you English and Americans understand the word, which will meet every expenditure out of taxation and produce an impression of absolute sincerity." That, he said, was France's and his immediate task...
...from the pedestal of adventurous explorer to that of the world's first press agent and real estate operator on continental scales. The trouble with all the other explorers was that they were unwilling to let Europe know of the good thing they had found Columbus set himself the task of making America popular, and he succeeded. All the other discovereres had returned at once to Europe, perhaps even at that early date disgusted by the extreme provincialism of the inhabitants. But Columbus bad the gift of salesmanship, and has been rewarded by having his name firmly attached...
...task of outlining a plan is one which requires more of selective than of imaginative skill. Oxford, with the tutor method the backbone, and lectures given purely for the benefit of those who desire to attend; Princeton, where the so-called preceptorial system has been set into the courses; Columbia, Swarthmore, and Smith, with the number of courses lowered and tutorial work increased, for those who are candidates for honors; these, together with certain experiments we find in several courses in Harvard exemplify most of the possible arrangements...