Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manufacturers of frankfurters, it seems, have before them the task of reforming some hundred million loyal American citizens. The term "hot dog", they claim, is misleading. Dog-meat may be all right in an emergency, but it is not to be inferred that the Coney Island frankfurter has any canine connection...
...Presbyterian Church, appointed by the last general assembly in Indianapolis to raise $15,000,000 for ministerial relief, adjourned after electing Will H. Hays (former Postmaster General, now cinema Tsar) permanent Chairman. Mr. Hays was in England, but the Committee received assurance that he would assume the task...
...Service pilots receive nasty assignments. Last week five officers had the dangerous task of towing target gliders 500 yards behind them, while anti-aircraft guns fired away in pitch darkness broken intermittently by searchlights. The gunners destroyed three of the target gliders, demonstrating the effectiveness of anti-aircraft defense even at night, and the fliers came down safely. But the slightest miscalculation would have meant death. Hundreds of persons at Willoughby Beach and Old Point Comfort (Va.) witnessed the manuevers, heard shells burst 5,000 feet above their heads...
...Division of History Government and Economics the problem is essentially simply. There the question of linguistic difficulties does not arise. To secure a tutor who is well acquainted with the language and literature of three nations is a more serious task than to find one versed in History, Government and Economics. As a matter of fact there is some...
...American and English efficiency and self-sacrifice that saved the situation. Giving up their various occupations, business men threw themselves into their task, working from 18 to 20 hours...