Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the most amusing are those which criticize the style in which TIME is written. This style is one of your most unique achievements as it accomplishes the difficult task of condensing without squeezing all the interest out of the matter. It is considered by many competent observers to have reached just about the top notch in good reportorial writing...
When Thomas Mann had thus finished the arduous task of getting clear with his ancestry, he started immediately on the next step in his autobiographic way of dealing with problems...
...task which Herr Mann has set himself, he has carried through with ability and perserverance, never once falling below his high standard of completeness and accuracy. He has brought before our immediate notice and in vivid coulours the tremendous elemental forces of natural life. No one who has read this book can forget the awful certainty that is death; man is a combination, as Plato said, of being and not being...
...folly in the beginning to set up state colleges upon the same bases and with the same objects as private colleges? Public institutions, even though practical, may well carry the burden of vindicating scientific knowledge and careful study as an approach to everyday professional and industrial tasks. And private institutions may retain the task they have long ago assumed and steadily followed, that of proving to those who will attend the proof, that the knowledge of one thing in its truest light involves knowing many things, and may retain, as its province likewise, the duty of giving asylum...
...reporters must also to a certain extent be students, has existed since the earliest days of college newspapers. At that time when journalism was still struggling to gain a definite place in the undergraduate life of the larger universities the much hearalded indifference of Harvard men made the task of the early Herald-Crimson particularly trying. In 1884, the first year of the new daily, protests by undergraduates about the scantiness of the news appearing in its columns brought forth a vigorous editorial answer in which the blame was shifted to the general student body...