Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statesman as Premier Raymond Poincaré, Wartime President of France, journeyed out to Bar-le-Duc and made before constituents his annual kotow. . . . He told them with a little unguent flattery that they and the electorate at large have returned such excellent deputies and senators that his own task-that of restoring financial and political stability to France out of chaos within ten months-has been comparatively simple. (A wink went round, for most of the audience know well how very great is the achievement of M. Raymond Poincaré). He continued: "You are aware that the budget...
...this field of promoting international understanding and good will that the Floating University can perform its best senvice. To teach 500 college men and women what other people do, what they look like, how they think, and how they feel (this last is often most important) is no light task, but it is worth the effort...
...Henry Sloane Coffin and H. H. Tweedy. After each of the addresses by these men there will be an opportunity for questions and comments. Forums will be held on ten subjects which the Council believes to be of paramount importance today. They are: Problems of Belief; Worship, The World Task of the Church, Industry, Race, China, Social Relationships, Modern Education. International Relations and Vocational Guidance. These groups will meet each day and will give an opportunity for an understanding of the facts, through thinking and free expression of opinion on these questions...
...affect the sales. And some irreconcilables will always be prejudiced by the fact that a jury has foreordained the success of a novel. The best reason for the maintenance of these book societies is that up to this time the selectors have been eminently well fitted for their task. The fallacy of the movement, however, is no less strong...
Recognizing however, the importance and desirability of maintaining an up-to-date and complete collection, they have enlisted the service of the John Barnard Associates. The association's task includes the compilation of check lists, which will be available for consultation by students of modern poetry...