Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon the issuance of your appeal all Russians without exception will take up unhesitatingly the glorious task of liberating the fatherland...
...president of Oberlin Business College, a commercial school which gives six months' and longer courses in bookkeeping, typewriting, stenography and kindred subjects. The business college has no connection with the college. If rewrite men cannot carry in their heads names of college presidents (surely not an impossible task) a copy of the World Almanac may be had for 50c and the needed information in this case...
...from solid food, Mr. Kelly came down. First he kissed his 19-year-old bride of six months, who had kept watch on the hotel roof, and hoisted up supplies on a pulley system. Then he prepared to exercise the cramped fingers of his right hand in the pleasant task of signing the vaudeville contract promised as the fruit of his labors...
...Louisiana, official evidence that the main flood is over was furnished by the resignation of onetime Governor John M. Parker as Relief Director. "The life-saving stage of the flood is over and my share of the task is done," he said. He added: "I feel it my duty to pay tribute to those whose work has been of untold value to the Mississippi Valley and especially to Herbert Hoover whose powers of organization, engineering and deep interest in humanity have again been manifested in saving more life and property than ever before in his memorable career...
...with him useless. But he bore in mind the image of Daniel Vierge, the Spanish painter, who refused to be cheated of his brush by a failing hand. Vierge had learned to paint over again with his left hand. Mr. Lawrence determined to do likewise. This was no easy task for a man past youth to set himself. Yet it was accomplished. Six months after his misfortune, he had attained sufficient skill to have occasional works again accepted by Harper's. Now that a full score of years has passed, he is able to exhibit water colors painted with...