Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grave task lies before the Faculty. Unless the proposed change is inaugurated with caution, forethought minute attention, and rigid determination to exact the responsibility that goes with freedom, it will either accomplish nothing or will wreck more students than we can afford to lose. Advisers, assistants, course instructors, examiners, and "the Office," all must put their shoulders to the wheel. Our main reliance is upon the tutors. Without them the plan would never have been suggested and without their hearty cooperation it cannot succeed. Their intimate personal relationship with their students will count for more than any other safeguard...
Counting the date on the southern trip that is still listed as "open", the Harvard schedule contains 35 games, which makes this the most ambitious task ever attempted by any Crimson nine during the past 15 years
...China (TIME, Jan. 24); and took the unprecedented and insulting course of ignoring the British Government and cabling over its head an appeal to the British Labor Party. Chen declared that "the British decline in Far Asia" will continue "until British Labor is entrusted by England with the task . . . of substituting the statesmanship of peace and productive work for the [British] Tory statesmanship of imperialism, war and Byzantine glory." Churchill Explodes. Though the British Government could, of course, take no official notice of Chen's deliberate insult, an explosive retort was made ex officio by Chancellor Winston S. Churchill...
...Kansas as elsewhere, is often so disguised as to make detection difficult. In Oregon, the law could be easily rendered impotent in its intended purpose by showing cigarette posters of attractive young girls in the act of smoking. But the biscuit squad of Oklahoma will have the hardest task. Armed with tape-lines, they must enter every kitchen in the state and make sure that no "society biscuits" are being made. It will be a job for heroes--or state legislators...
When asked it the fact that Mexicans are considered incapable of managing their affairs would not justify foreign ownership and control of industrialization, Mr. Tannenbaum said that this argument is based on assumptions alone. "All races are equally capable to the task of managing their industrial problems at the beginning. The United States, England, and the rest of the world has paid an enormous price for its great industrialization. Besides, the Mexicans are very clever. They can carry their own load. They have included all industrial problems in their Constitution, They trust none of these problems like the eight hour...