Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several men who had been expected to row on the first two crews will be unavailable because of scholastic deficiency. This makes Coach Shaw's task an especially difficult one, because there has been an unusual dearth of material since the season began. There will be no further opportunity for these present ineligibles to be relieved of probation, and the present seating arrangements will last until Coach Shaw is absolutely certain they will...
...University, indeed, has every reason to thank him for undertaking a task of such magnitude the task, in fact, of showing the nation that capital invested in certain specialized branches of the University will certainly bring valuable returns, not only to the nation at large but to the individuals who invest. The mere fact that Bishop Lawrence is confident that this attempt to increase the potential service of Harvard to the country is worth while will be enough for many; while the more conservative, who will demand facts and details, will find plenty of both forth-coming. In this latter...
Weicker made public a series of memos which he said showed the systematic abuse of the IRS, starting with the creating in 1969 of a secret task force to collect tax information on activist groups...
Weicker said the IRS memo on the formation of the special intelligence task force discussed various means by which the tax laws could be used to attack what it described variously as activist, ideological, radical, militant, or subversive groups...
...author was Arthur E. Stilwell, one of the foremost railroad buyers in the U. S. In a dream, what Stilwell described as "brownies" urged him to build the Kansas City Southern, the shortest line from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico. No sooner was this task completed than the same "brownies" became insistent that he run another line from Kansas, southwest, into Mexico. Stilwell even consulted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who declared that "spirits" were directing his work...