Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revival of hope for prosperity, the European market was further disturbed by the French invasion of the Ruhr. Economically England needs European recovery and it is Mr. Baldwin's great ambition to further this recovery by solving the reparations problem. He has not chosen an easy task; despite a score of meetings and conferences intended to solve the same problem. Mr. Lloyd-George succeeded only in solving the question of when he would retire from the premiership, while Mr. Bonar Law's "business proposals" at Paris received but three day's consideration...
...loose leaf or a card system for lecture notes, the advantage of classifying notes from the assigned "readings", making outlines of subjects, the use of diagrams and the general distribution of time. Many a college graduate who has learned in a business office how to concentrate off a given task has looked back with regret to the times which he wasted because he had not learned how to apply himself while in college...
...President Harding has the task of preparing two " set'' speeches and six others for use on his transcontinental trip toward the end of the month. This is a considerable reduction from the 20 speeches originally planned, and probably represents hia desire not to appear just yet before the people as a candidate for office...
...first sentence of a leading editorial of the Chicago Tribune began: " The New York Evening Post, owned by Mr. Thomas Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co., takes John McCutcheon [Chicago Tribune cartoonist] to task for a cartoon questioning the ability of American diplomacy...
Another indication that Seniors are now looking beyond commencement is the inclusion this year as part of the "lives" the profession, if it is known, that each man intends to pursue. Otherwise this Album looks very much like its predecessors, and rightly so. The task of the Album Committee is to strive for accuracy and completeness, not novelty. The photographs, which are altogether too numerous to count, are, in general, the same ones which have appeared before. A notable exception is the commemoration of the Sargent panels in photography and verse...