Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After I had been eliminated the party began, and should vigorously continue, the serious task of selecting another candidate from among the numbers of distinguished men available...
...Willis. First to offer assistance to the Committee in its task of "selecting another," was round-faced, black-haired Senator Frank B. Willis booming Dry. "If the Republicans of Ohio feel that I can creditably represent them ... I shall feel it a great honor to do so," he boomed. Portentious silence greeted this statement...
...Davison is one of a none too copious group of public officials trained to his task. He was a War flyer; continued his practical interest in aviation through other political occupations; was summoned to the pilot seat of Army flying. Commander Byrd and nearly every other famed aviator in U. S. Mr. Davison knows personally. His home sheltered Charles Augustus Lindbergh from the blizzard of publicity which beset him on arrival from Europe. He flies to keep appointments, virtually commuting by air between his place on Long Island and his desk in Washington. The new ship, a Loening plane similar...
Said Mr. Green: "Reduction in taxation is a much more pleasant task than increasing it. I sincerely hope we may never have to increase taxation. Yet, if we had yielded to the importunities of many who appeared before...
...considered in the sphere of practical engineering. For the most part and generally speaking the engineering profession may be said to have solved or laid the groundwork of solution for the essential problems of the engineer in his technical field. Experience shows, however, that industry's most important task in this day of large-scale production is management of men on a human basis...