Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blaze a clear trail away from such catastrophic industrial follies will be the vital task of the new Conference. After three hours in secret session, last week, the leaders were optimistic. Said Mr. Turner: "Extraordinary successful! . . . The employers' proposals are exceedingly comprehensive. . . . We have entered these conversations without prejudice, committed only to the finding of a just and lasting solution of industrial problems." Said Sir Alfred Mond: "Most hopeful! . . . We have appointed a joint acting committee of investigation'' (to meet under the alternate chairmanship of Mr. Turner and Sir Alfred...
However, after 1930 the new interest payments will total at least $22,807,174. To make up the nearly $5,000,000 difference in charges is not an impossible task for a railroad in a growing country, if properly managed...
...return to England and to try to interpret the vast enterprises of your great empire, for that is what you are building up, in the certain belief that a genuine understanding can be built up between us. ... The palm may pass from us in the future. . . . But our task is in the present. Let us meet it together." After her lecture, Preacher Royden, like every other famed British visitor, was asked what she thought of prohibition. Said she: "It is a marvelous adventure. ... I wish it success...
...which will be of help to the Advisers, and these are copied and sent to each Adviser, together with the other information concerning his advisees. As a rule these letters from parents and teachers are very helpful, and give just the kind of personal information that we need. The task of reading all this correspondence is he easy one, but the results are more than worth the labor. Occasionally, the often dreary monotony of going through these letters is broken by some amusing bit of information. One parent wrote: My boy has two good habits, smoking and drinking; he does...
...Sanskrit or worse. Suffice to say that it is doubtless the most prevalent example of universal phobia in the world. Even minds otherwise destitute of primitive prejudices based on fears are tinged with an irrational suspicion of the day and demonstrate strange stubborness in hesitating to take up any task with such an inauspicious beginning. It is a quite elemental but quite human emotion...