Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico during the revolutionary period (1910-1920). At Washington last week, a General Claims Commission met to adjust Mexican and American Claims, excepting those which arose from acts connected with recent revolutions. The first Commission is to decide all claims within five years; the second is complete its task within three; both were provided for under Conventions (TIME, Aug. 27, 1923) signed in September 1923. Americans and Mexicans claimed millions of dollars from one another...
Little Robinson Crusoe. It must be a discouraging task searching for vehicles in which Jacky Coogan can travel new stages on the road that he has paved for himself thus far with great prosperity. None of his later films seem much more than thinly gilded frames in which to set his brilliantly expressive countenance. In the current picture he is wrecked on a cannibal island, and disports himself amidst the cannibal cancan...
...people that my defeat at the hands of Jack Dempsey had not made a coward of me. That's what they seemed to think-yes, even said. It broke my heart. I am not a coward. . . . The second reason ... is to take Harry Wills to task-in the ring-for a published statement made by him after seeing me defeat Jess Willard [1923], in which he said . . . that he could have whipped both Willard and myself in the same ring. I resent that now as I resented it when I read it. I am here to prove to Wills...
...British Commonwealth of Nations is "in for it," to use a colloquialism, if Grigori Zinoviev, fierce Bolshevik spirit, is to be believed. Said he in Moscow: "England is now the chief task of the Communist International. If we succeed in creating a mass Communist party there, half the European victory will have been achieved. We must not set too low a value on what is going on in England. We must organize a daily Communist paper and create a left flank of trades unions. We must set to work in the British colonies...
Africa is a harsh nursery for receptive natures. The author had to reconcile his to the task of keeping in order some sheep and some natives- a task which included counting, shearing, earmarking, castrating the former ; humoring, doctoring, whipping, burying the latter. This was itself taxing for a young and literary Englishman- a Beau Brummel in khaki pants and red shirt, exiled from home because of ill-health. There were compensating novelties. For instance, on the night of his arrival he lay shivering through the white hours in a disused woodshed while a lion drank from a reservoir outside...