Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David Goldstein, Secretary of the Catholic Truth Guild of Boston, took to task the whole birth control movement as being a detriment to personal morality, domestic felicity, and civil integrity in an address before the Liberal Club at its luncheon yesterday. He held that "birth prevention rather than birth control were a more fitting term by which to designate those artificial processes advocated by the proponents of this reprehensible doctrine." He termed as sophistical the arguments made by Mrs. Sanger before the Club two weeks ago in favor of neo-Malthusianism...
...course requirements to ten or twelve is wholly advisable. For the first two years the present schedule of four courses might well be continued; the elements of any new study can be handled very satisfactorily in the present lecture introductory courses. But after the groundwork has been laid, the task of guiding growing intellectual interest can be safely entrusted to the tutorial system, as present facts tend to demonstrate. To require more than two courses each, in addition to tutorial work during the Junior and Senior years is, then, to impose the present undue demands upon student energy...
...President wrote to President Herbert Hoover of the American Child Hygiene Association: "I am confident that the people will be glad to make May Day the occasion of rededicating themselves to the happy task of safeguarding our most precious asset-our 35,000,000 children...
...last two years, a peculiar annual cycle in business has been seen. Dealers have refused to stock up and have thrown the task of "holding the bag" back on the manufacturer. Now the manufacturing industry, broadly speaking, is overbuilt with productive facilities, as a result of War and post-War conditions. Consequently, when genuine demand begins to increase, It one manufacturer fails to advance his production rate swiftly, his competitor will do so and grab the business. Thus, as soon as buying begins, output is tremendously stimulated all around; and so out of proportion are most U. S. productive facilities...
...atmosphere of dread east over the place by the old gravis, who treasure the past like a sacred jewel. But the past is forever being violated, and it happens that this is an era of particularly swift and radical change, natural and orderly, nevertheless. A brass task? Or a doctor? I think we need the brass tack. E. Austin Benner...