Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Massachusetts High School Athletic Association. I never sat through a meeting where the discussion seemed so pointless. Principals of schools were attempting to formulate a set of uniform eligibility rules for all schools in the state. They failed to recognize the utter impossibility of such a task, for conditions vary too much in different sections of the state. The athletically related group of schools in one district may very well have certain athletic traditions of a desirable nature that are not common to schools in other parts of the state...
...White House. Yet some memorial of the President would be cherished forever. Such cards as are distributed on Pike's Peak testifying to the traveller's actual presence on the summit might be distributed in Heu of the traditional handshake. An office boy could thus dispose of a task which has become too burdensome for the first man of the land...
...Committee (Chairman Charles G. Dawes of Chicago), whose task was to stabilize German currency and balance the German budget," recommended...
...SOUL OF SAMUEL PEPYS-Gamaliel Bradford - Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). A penetrating, humorous and well-balanced appraisal of the Diarist. Gamaliel Bradford brings to his task that curious mixture of scholarly precision and sprightly irrelevancy of comment which has stamped him as America's most potent contender in the field of illuminating biography. If one would know more about Pepys than can be gleaned from the colyums of the Manhattan daily that records the doings of his modern prototype, ecce liber...
...Turkish Government has undertaken the Augean task of unscrambling the populations of the Near East. Most of Turkey's racial troubles in the past arose from the inextricable intermingling of Turks, Arabs, Greeks, Jews, Kurds, Georgians, Circassians, Armenians. The Government announced the establishment of zones, forbidden to racial minorities. These zones lie on the frontiers. Armenians are segregated out of Turkey. Arabs are forbidden the vilayets on the Syrian and Mesopotamian frontier. Georgians are forbidden the Kars and Ardahan eastern frontier, near Georgia. Greeks are restricted to Constantinople. Only Kurds are allowed villages speaking their own language. In other...