Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Previous to M. Venizelos' installation, General Danglis, Chairman of the Venizelist Party, accepted the task of forming a Cabinet, but failed in the attempt...
...task which is a special task for the Christian students of the world is this : Help the students. The Pope has just now sent $3,000,000 to Germany. We wait for the action of the great body of our Protestant brethren...
...last few games Hodder has amply demonstrated his skill as a rapid-shifting stick handler, but his agility at outwitting the man in front of him has not infrequently served to divert his attention from the more important task of speeding toward the opponents' cage. In his new position the boards make it harder for him to dodge, and more necessary to skate fast...
Five years, in pride and selfishness and universal shame we have bowed out heads over our little tasks and left the great task of establishing the peace of the world in the hands of our former allies, discouraged and hindered by our repudiation of the work we had begun. If others in those years have pursued selfish aims, we who set the example cannot blame them. If in those years, or in the years to come for which they prepared the way, there has been, or shall be, strife and bloodshed that our strength in the council of the world...
...have had time to judge and to regret the effects of our splendid isolation. The triumph of our arms no longer blinds us to the defeat of our purposes. The joy of our return from war has faded in the sorrow of the unfinished task that still remains. Our chosen leaders have recognized our obligations to the world in the Washington Conference and in the recommendation that the United States should adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice. Such public action, however, supplemented as it is by private enterprise, is too limited to be adequate as our full share...