Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...besides being a man of gigantic intellectual gifts. A foremost authority on legal matters, a scholar with numerous degrees attached to his name, and author of several important and interesting philosophical works, it is said that he makes a habit of reading a book each morning before breakfast, a task which he accomplishes with lightning rapidity, and in such a way he keeps up with all the important branches of literature. Besides this and his work on the Juridical Committee of the Privy Council, he finds time to keep up with, and sometimes ahead of, the famed Einstein. Undoubtedly Labor...
...rightly so. My feelings toward Germany never have altered, and I never have concealed them. That is why I still am confident in her future. The Germans certainly are passing through a difficult period, but we in England will not cease to put our whole weight into the task of mediation between France and Germany...
...German Government legalized by special decree French and Belgian francs in the Rhineland and the Ruhr. It was said that this step was taken in order to embroil the French and Belgian francs in the debacle of the mark. Perhaps it was a sincere effort to lighten the task of German printing presses which, in the space of two weeks, printed 308 quadrillions of paper marks...
...University of Chicago, recently modernized the New Testament (TIME, Sept. 3). Now it is announced his colleagues in the Hebrew Department are to do a similar work for the Old Testament. A committee, headed by Dr. J. M. P. Smith, Professor of Old Testament Literature, will undertake the task...
Finally, Nichols conceived the idea of breaking down the door, but it was 9.30 in the evening before the task was accomplished...