Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week is the meeting in Zürich of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches. This alliance includes all Christian churches of the world except the Roman Catholic. It holds that the League is the best means of international justice and friendship and says that the task of the churches of every land is to inspire among their people an enthusiasm for the great conception of the League and a willingness to labor for its complete realization. A committee of 26, containing both French and German members, presented a report urging that the Ruhr dispute be submitted...
...engineers, including Dr. Morley, John F. Barry, William Barclay Parsons, Dr. Marshall H. Saville of Columbia and Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution, is surveying the field preliminary to a more exhaustive explor ation. Restoration and preservation of the astonishing Mayan architecture is the prime task in view...
...Rhodes scholarships, intended to develop cordial relations among the English-speaking nations of the world, left their task half accomplished. Americans have poured across the sea to Oxford and the association with Englishmen in their own country has been profitable. But the feeble trickle of Englishmen to American universities has prevented the thorough understanding which Rhodes intended. "Reciprocity", in this case, is necessary, and the stimulation has been provided. Each year the Davison scholarships will support one student from Oxford and one for Cambridge at Harvard, Yale and Princeton; in all six men. As with the Rhodes scholarships, general fitness...
There lies the task of those who read the CRIMSON. As your generation succeeds or fails in this task, so will you and your children's children live in happiness or perish in unparalleled catastrophes. A foundation has been laid. What will you build...
...morning I have been trying to think, and I find nothing. The task before me would obliterate a weaker man. It is supremely hard to convince the rest of the world that everything is wrong, and the worst of it is they don't know...