Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lately he was asked what he considered the "immediate" task of the U. S. He, whose philosophy of government is based primarily on business economics, answered: "The development of water resources to relieve railway congestion. . . . Our engineers assure me that a consolidated Mississippi Valley system of water trunk lines and tributaries can be finished in five years if we go at it vigorously, and that the cost will not be much above a hundred million dollars. This is negligible expense for facilities that will move-economically speaking-our Middle Western wheat growers and cattle raisers hundreds of miles nearer...
After pausing for an instant, Her Majesty added as a potent afterthought: "I am also writing the story of my life. . . . It is a long task. ... As a child I knew all the great personalities...
Twenty years ago, Pope Pius X commissioned a scholar to head a research into the text of the Vulgate, the 1500-year-old standard Latin version of the Bible. The scholar whom he chose for this task was his Eminence Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. Since the Vulgate is the universal biblical authority for all Roman Catholics and since modern discoveries have posed questions against the validity of its sacred interpretations, Cardinal Gasquet's task is one of enormous value as well as gigantic labor. This year the jubilant festival of Easter will wear for Roman Catholics an additional brilliance...
Miss Judith Anderson in the leading and pathological role has a certain charm which offsets in part irritating elements in her handling of the part. At best she would have a difficult task, and Mr. Kelly has given her none too adequate help. In the last act she is effective in a Shelley-like conception of the waning moon when...
...type of education for secondary schools, it appears excellent; whether or not it is successful there may soon be known through the experiment at Avon, Connecticut, where such a school is now in existence. But as a college measure it possesses serious defects, beyond the almost insurmountable task of supplanting by it the present system...