Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After much secret and uncertain picking up and putting down, Herbert Hoover fitted ten pegs into ten holes and finally made up his Cabinet. It had been a brain-bullying task and the result, somehow, failed to produce the striking design of supermen and specialists which Mr. Hoover-and the U. S.-had hoped for last November. He had had a surplus of little pegs that would have fallen through the holes, whereas big pegs of individual shapes refused to fit in, even when pushed. But a survey of his handiwork at least brought the new President the consoling knowledge...
...discussion of a cosmopolitan problem. On the other hand it is possible that a large student public could be brought to patronize a magazine which should undertake exclusively to mirror their own life and activities. College newspapers perform this function in an abbreviated form; it would be the task of the proposed college "lit" to select topics of controversial or novel interest and develop them in a literary manner. The difficulty of confining contributors entirely to college subjects would not be the least of the trials of the college literary publication embarking upon this policy. Nevertheless this obstacle ought...
...free leaders than from the more systematic attention to detail possible under the long arm of the faculty. When undergraduate athletics become too large a responsibility for undergraduate direction it would seem wiser frankly to admit this and to accept graduate management. Let the student leader touch only that task which he can reach with his own hands...
This operation might involve the flotation of 30 billions of dollars worth of "reparations bonds," a task too titanic even for the House of Morgan. Collaboration would have to be sought from perhaps half the great financial houses of the world. Even then the project might prove unfeasible-possibly for political reasons. However, it is expected that in about two months' time, the Second Dawes Committee will have worked through its other problems to the point of deciding whether "commercialization" is practicable...
...hope that before 1932 we shall have finished our task completely, both the Constitution and all the complementary laws. But I don't think it will require three years...