Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here, but it can never forget what they-the war dead-did. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought have so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, fought for by those honored dead, with increased devotion to that cause to which they gave their last full measure of devotion, and that we highly resolve that these dead have not died in vain.'" (Yes, Lord Robert misquoted...
With the plot clear in the reader's mind, it is a simple and gratifying task to ascend to the level of personal performance. In the order of their appearance, J. McK., Kimball, as the hotel clerk, was perfectly terrible, but you couldn't possibly get sore with him about it. D. A. Williams, as Byron Victory Dawes, the head of the nouveau riche family and head of the suspender-trust, carried on in a fine fervor of unsubstantial middle-aged choler throughout. Mrs. Dawes, played by B. S. Cogan, carried on in a fine fervor of substantial middle-aged...
...floor of the Foreign Office, he is as far removed socially and physically from the lower as from the upper crust. . . . Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him. He abhors new clothes, does not like to ride in automobiles. . . . Does every little task for himself like sharpening his own pencils. . . . Here is Mr. Tchitcherin, member of one of the oldest and most aristocratic families in Russia, for four years now guiding with such delicate hands and careful brain the affairs of state, in order that all that once was, which gave his family...
...choose for his field of concentration that subject which is of all most dear to him. Whatever his calling in life, he should provide the means, now while there is time, for building him a little world of the ideal in which he can find relief from his daily task and a new inspiration for it. The literature of Greece and Rome contains such a world, remote from the present and forever akin to it. Nor should a concentration restricted to the Classics be regarded as a narrow programme. The ability to read authors like Thucydides, Aeschylus, Horace, Tacitus...
...biological fallacy that we can assimilate indefinitely the vast numbers of immigrants of a different race which are continually pouring into the United States. When the nationalities of the immigrants corresponded to those already here, and when the country had infinite facilities for increase in population, the task was simple. The type of immigrant has changed, however, and the cities are becoming filled with a dangerous class of foreigner, the producer of crime waves and bomb plots. With these things in view, the sieve-like quality shown by our border and port officials is at least deplorable. The brew...