Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rechristened "The Conquering Power," made a "gripping photo-drama". But in all of these the character has appeared ready-made for the actor to interpret. The average scenario supplies nothing more than the mechanics of the plot; the conception of the character is left entirely to the actor, a task which is usually beyond his powers...
...prominent University professor once described the reading or "Beowulf" as an "intellectual luxury" for any man not seeking a doctor's degree in English. To the scholar this poem is more of a pleasant interest than a required task-but one which very few students find time to enjoy. Much the same attitude has often been taken towards the attendance of college chapel. The student finds it hard to make time enough at nine o'clock in the morning for religious exercises, even though he may recognize the benefit to be derived from them. Consequently, he never acquires the habit...
...seems as if additional credit should be given to the man who endeavors to follow the instructions and accomplish that really difficult task of being brief...
...definite number of words. One man will write on the question at full length or in twice as many words as the instructions specify. He will receive a satisfactory grade. Another man with equal knowledge of the answer will follow instructions explicitly and do the much harder task of keeping within the required bounds. His grade will suffer because of his briefness...
Work has been begun at the University Observatory on the extension of the Henry Draper Catalogue, and immense compilation of the spectra of 225,000 stars in every part of the sky, made over a period of many years as a part of the Observatory's fundamental task of surveying and mapping the heavens...