Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mediation is perhaps the most dangerous task that can be imposed upon a man, and I have some misgivings as to whether I am not boldly "rushing in where angels fear to tread" in the present instance. Yet the deep respect with which I regard the rights of Religion and Science, and my belief that there are others who also wish to mete out full justice, as far as possible, to the respective claims of these hoary old opponents prompt me to propose a truce, the Truce...
...been under Christians' control for four years and the sight of it has been such a rebuke as Christendom has not suffered since the great Moslem reformation first purged the decadent Eastern Christendom of the Middle Ages. ... I believe that American Protestantism and British Nonconformism have their greatest task still ahead of them and that that task is nearer home than Islam. I believe that task is nothing less than the salvage of the practice of Christianity from the wreck the Christians themselves have made...
...letting wartime offenses be bygones, President Coolidge has taken the wise course. There is also the probability that before very long these restless spirits will again place themselves in a similar position of active opposition to the present social order. Although it will be a much more difficult task to dispose of them, without the aid of the summary proceeding incidental to a state of war, the fact that they are old offenders will make convictions and long-term imprisonments more acceptable to a certain niceness of the public taste...
...extremely strong line-up, having beaten the powerful Tennis and Racquet Club two weeks ago. These two matches, therefore, will have a direct bearing on the ultimate outcome of the team match. To win both will give the University a good start, while to lose both will make the task of the Crimson players doubly hard tomorrow when the remaining three matches will be played...
...American colleges and crew as it exists in England, he dwelt especially on the nearer approach to a similarity or attitude toward the sport "The English attitude has always been to regard the sport as a sport, while American colleges have been prone to regard it more as a task. Due largely to the rowing for all policy lately established, the attitude at Harvard has changed appreciably toward the former Rowing has become a real sport...