Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task of such honor societies as this Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and especially our own Carnegie Foundation, to try to find some reward for these services, or at least to give them their due honor. But if the dispatch is to be credited, there is a sharp difference between the French society and the American. Where one was held back by the flimsiest red tape from giving an earned award, the other has recently gone to the opposite extreme, as the same news-item relates. Another X-ray scholar was Dr. Adolph Leray, who died a slow death...
...would be hard to find conditions for successfully producing this play in the best professional theatres in New York. It is not strange that the older advisors thought that the Harvard Dramatic Club was steering straight for certain failure when it decided to attempt this task. But the young men and girls of the Club were right; they knew what they could do, and they did it. The play was a success in every detail, not least in the stage settings, which were the most successful seen for many years in Boston or Cambridge. And the effect of the whole...
...task which they have set themselves is one which might have stumped even the redoubtable Dr. Johnson, for his arbitrary inclusion of this and exclusion of that is far from the intention of the board. No opposition from indignant professors, no acceptance and support from the compilers of a dictionary can bar a word from speech and writing nor incorporate another in its place. "It is me" has thrived on learned antagonism. "I'll make a ghost of him that lets me" sounds ridiculous to the average ear. In Shakspere's day such usage was taken for granted; today...
...pointing facts with amusing allusions will popularize what might be merely an academic subject. Asking for an analysis of "Hamlet" in an hour and a half is much like proposing a lecture to "Explain the universe in Ten Minutes", but if anyone is qualified for the task, it is Professor Kittredge. The Dowse Institute is both fortunate and wise in securing him for this year's series...
...followed republic, and monarchy dictatorship, anarchy filling the gaps between, until the nation is practically bankrupt. Dr. Wu Tingfang, the only truly great patriot China has had, is now dead; President Hsu Shih-chang has ruled and fallen, and Presidert Sun Yat-sen has proved unequal to the task of uniting the government under one central power...