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Word: tasks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faced by this project for speedy disarmament, could League slow-pokers retort successfully to the plausible if specious Soviet plan? Could they discredit it, tear it to tatters, and at the same time justify before public opinion the League's slow, plodding ways? Such a task required _a Cicero - or, as Anglo-Saxons said, later in the week - a Cushendun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Disarmament Debate | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Being one of God's intellectual grandchildren is no easy task, as the Student Vagabond, bowed and bent with impending Divisionals, has disgustedly observed. Notwithstanding the generally accredited levity of mind common to the season, the ponderousness of intellectual activity in the last few weeks has had a profound effect upon the Vagabond's already apparent bewilderment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/31/1928 | See Source »

...worn-out corporations, resigned last week as chairman of the board of directors of the unfortunate Boston & Maine Railroad. Directors insisted on voting him $100,000 for his four years of voluntary service. He accepted the check, established a Boston & Maine Employes' fund with it, adding: "The task seemed worth undertaking, and the satisfaction and enjoyment in having helped accomplish it have been adequate compensation for what I have contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Check | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...written with intelligence and a proper sensitiveness to words. It can be asserted, with some justice, that, possessing these qualifications, no one could help writing a good book about King Christophe. Author John Vandercook, in a day when too many authors with abilities insufficient for their task attempt to decorate matters which are trite or trivial, deserves applause for choosing a superlative subject for human and highly spectacular biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: King Christophe | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...individual contributions, the most noteworthy being that of Robert Gould Shaw '69, have given Harvard its unrivalled prominence. The present size of the collection may be realized when it is considered that six years ago the custodian of the collection started a catalogue of the prints alone, and the task is not yet finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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