Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present it is the task of filling the stroke and coxswain positions that is Coach Brown's chief problem. These positions were made vacant by the graduation of John Watts '28 and C. H. Pforzheimer '28 last June...
Anyone who is aware of the complexity of undergraduate social life in American colleges, and who is therefore conscious of the prejudices that are inevitably aroused when the adequacy of the club or fraternity system is challenged will grant that Harvard has undertaken the more difficult task when she attacks the problem as it relates to undergraduates. One can but admire the courage of the Harvard authorities in venturing upon so thorny a path. --McGill. Daily
...Transfer, from the Treasury to the Department of Justice, of Federal enforcement. As old as the Volstead Act is the question of which department should enforce prohibition. It went to the Treasury because that department had long collected liquor taxes. Under Harding no good prohibitor would trust the task to Harry Micajah Daugherty's Department of Justice. President Hoover now favors the change, and his rejection of his close friend William J. Donovan as Attorney-General seemed prompted, aside from alleged politico-religious considerations,* by his desire to entrust future enforcement in the Department of Justice to a personal...
...build, what pressures to apply. With perhaps five or six assistants, he would work for hours over slow shifts and perilous easements. Emmett Lawrence eyed and estimated, gave the commands. Often night fell or rains came but there was no stopping. The placing of a marble statue is one task that must be completed without pause...
...HOWARD, Chairman of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers: "The death of Briton Hadden robs American journalism of one of its greatest promises. His youthful viewpoint struck a new note and a wholesome one. His co-workers will carry on the success he helped achieve, but the task will be heavier despite their determination to make good his absence from their ranks...