Word: tasks
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There are many naval officers at the institute, among them Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, K.C.M.G., Commander of the Asiatic Squadron. Admiral Strauss was commander of the force which laid a barrage of over 56,000 mines across the North Sea in the Spring of 1918. Later he had the task of removing them. He agreed in substance with Professor Blakeslee and added a few remarks...
Radek concluded: "A million members of the Communist Party in Germany must be the objective reached in the immediate future. The time for a general attack is not yet here, but it is ripening. . . .The strategic task of German Communism, therefore, is to further the ripening of revolution through organization work...
Woodrow Wilson in the August number of The Atlantic Monthly said : " The world has been made safe for democracy. . . . But democracy has not yet made the world safe against irrational revolution. That supreme task, which is nothing less than the salvation of civilization, now faces democracy, insistent, imperative. . . . It is against capitalism under one name or another that the discontented classes everywhere draw their indictment. . . . The sum of the whole matter is this: that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually...
...there ever was a plain example to follow it is here. Let Great Britain turn resolutely to the task ready to her hand - the development of the British Empire and of her markets in the East and in South America - exactly as the United
...attempted to remove a new cataract which has formed since the operations of last February. When the bandage was removed on July 26, M. Monet could see clearly with one eye, but further surgery may be necessary. The great age of the painter (81) adds danger to the delicate task...