Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington to discuss Germany's reparations. There was another theory that Congressional leaders wished to confer with Mr. Hoover on farm relief and on the possibility of an extra session of Congress. Finally it was just possible that Mr. Hoover had found too much for him the task of making up a cabinet miles away from everybody. Maybe he was returning to Washington to get some suggestions. Remote aboard the Utah, Mr. Hoover offered no specific explanation...
Newly-elected Premier Maniu of Roumania, in taking America, the golden goose of Europe, as his model for the reorganization of his country, has the eyes of the world upon him. His task is likely to be an irritating one, for when he accomplishes his proposed removal of obnoxious taxes on foreign trade and foreign capital, the holding of "fair elections," and provisions for a clean government, he will already have outstripped his model. By strict adherence to it, he can do no more than develop tariff battles, intervention policies, brass-knuckled good-will trips, Smith-Vare disbarments...
...last another oasis has appeared in a prolonged desert. Mr. Hoover has taken up the task so admirably started by Colonel Lindbergh in offering gratuitous lessons in geography. The daily papers are continually recording the names of hitherto unknown, or long forgotten, cities and villages, which now distinguish themselves as hospitable hosts to a celebrated American. For those who have seen the map of South America through a glass darkly, these illuminating reports are becoming mines of information--the historical student can now locate the home of Bolivar, and the engineer the railroad passes across the Andes...
...names are treated by the Buddhist of Tibet, China, and Japan Some of those names are translated, others are transcribed by the non-Indian Buddhists and still others represent a mixture of the two methods. Tracing those names back to their original Indian forms is not always an easy task...
...victory is taken as proof of superiority, it might be shown that a grammar school eleven in Eastern Iowa has the most powerful football team in the U. S. If not, it is only possible to single out individuals and rate them as solitary heroes. This thankless task is attended to by sports writers on whose hands time hangs heavy when the football season is over. What is remarkable about this performance is this: the pickers of Ail-American teams not infrequently agree with each other to some slight extent...