Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future emergencies come to the United States, we shall have to create virtually our entire force after the declaration of war, which will be a tremendous task, however well conceived. Probably in no other army in the world, consequently, is it so important as in ours that organization, material, equipment, training plans and mobilization projects should be as simple as possible...
Workmen are also busy at the annual task of laying the board track and tearing down the wooden stands of the Stadium. The track will be ready for Coach Farrell's charges on Monday. It appears in fast condition, although the corners already show wear from only two years' use. The 20 men on the wooden stands will be occupied all winter in demolishing the work which took from June to November to complete...
...difficulties arise from the different conditions under which the games were played. It is hardly just to compare the early October showing of the team with the late November form of another. It is extremely difficult to judge an eleven playing in a quagmire of mud. Probably the hardest task of all is to fit the Harvard players into their proper niche, as their showing for the entire season must be considered...
...horseback, but a man of quiet influence and of thoroughly grounded intellectual capacities." He attacked the idea that civilization is slowly disintegrating and in this connection made the statement that "There are enough men in this room tonight to save civilization if they are properly qualified for the task...
Requirements for the three departments differ widely. Candidates for the News Department are reporters. It is their task to get the news for each issue. The competition is conducted on a point basis. Scoops, which a man secures on his own initiative, count twice as much as assignments. News candidates have ample opportunity to meet and interview prominent leaders in all walks of life...