Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a zeal which will send him off on the trail of self-education. Men like Henry Adams scoffed at the idea of self-education in the nineteenth century. No wonder that so many students in this complex age turn back in distress at the magnitude of the task set before them. To many experience alone means education. To these outside activities afford this experience...
Those gentlemen who find it amusing or profitable to judge each race by an absolute standard, and call one people art-loving, another frivolous, a third conservative--and such persons include most authors, from newspaper correspondents to popular biographers--have had rather a hard task in re-cutting and pasting together post-war Germany to make it fit into its pigeon-hole. In the war years, and previous to them, it was easy to list the Germans as militaristic, servile to rank and title, and later bloodthirsty committers of atrocities. But the last decade has found, in spite...
...resourceful Hoover, whose conclusions are essentially a one-man job, and whose apparent concentration on the task immediately in hand gives no clue to the fact that he is at last equally interested in six other matters at the same moment--a man whose career is a successful rebuttal of the adage that it is a mistake to have too many irons in the fire...
...engaged in making the Appalachian survey, a task to which he devoted eight years...
...High Commissioner's residence, Lord Lloyd, suave, impeccably clad and steelyeyed, received Sarwat's report with quiet understanding. From the High Commissioner's presence the Prime Minister went forth to his thankless task of trying to persuade the Wafd, now led by little known Mustafa El Nahass Pasha, that it must again knuckle under...