Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American make-up is such that we take sports so seriously. It is nevertheless an undoniable fact and we must face the truth its best we can. Considered from this standpoint the morale of the team and leading his men on the firing line are quite enough of a task without giving him the awful responsibility of making substitutions as well, and directing the strategy of the game in a manner that will be pleasing to 30,000 spectators, millions of newspaper readers and millions more of listeners on the radio. It is essential that an older and more experienced...
Throughout the play, the hard, fast drives of the 1928 backs proved too much for the Senior defense. The 1927 line was weak, and generally the task of bringing down the runner was left to the backfield. J. N. Barbee '28, and Hamilton lieard '28 of the Juniors starred with magnificent running, time and again tearing off gains of from four to eight yards...
...spite of the evidence presented to the contrary in Mencken's Green Book of Aphorisms, one can rationally suppose that the genus homo Americanus, who is so used to gathering meaning from ordinary tables, box scores and bond quotation lists will prove equal to the task of supporting an annual change of time. At any rate the people have received a new right of untold possibilities, for now they can set their clocks when and where they choose with no fear of chiding from a law-stricken conscience...
...uniquely difficult as it is. Cambridge, this last summer, has vibrated to the intense vigor of the too often misunderstood T. S. Eliot. And, though he lacks the maturity which is to mold his work into even more adequate accomplishment, Stack Young is admirably equipped for just such a task...
...tenths of the book is conversation; rapid, clear, forceful, but no more racy of the certain day than it is revealing of the certain people. There is much color, but it is plastered on in hurried, florid gobs. Author Cohen, to whom high praise is due for a tremendous task well tried, betrays his inexperience chiefly by distrusting his ability to write with care as well as power. All these shortcomings notwithstanding, U. S. fiction has a new dynasty: the Pardways. Author Cohen is a Mosaic young man, cast on a large frame, fleshy but solid, slow-spoken, positive...