Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee adopted the unique expedient of reporting two differing bills and giving the House the difficult task of choosing between them...
...Ames has simplified his task by employing players that are for the most part widely unknown. All of them are good and some of them are extraordinary. Ernest Lawford, the only one of whom most people have heard, is conspicuously excellent as the susceptible Lord Chancellor with the pleasant occupation?...
...support- is a railroader of the same gauge, action, power. His career, except for an engineering course at Harvard, parallels Mr. Willard's closely-a New England parentage, ground-training in the Midwest, the presidency of the Northern Pacific at 42 (1903). In 1913 he accepted the task of rehabilitating the New York, New Haven & Hartford, but had to resign after four years. Recovering, he worked under Mr. Willard in the U. S. Railroad Administration. He is still a director of 19 roads. The breadth and activity of his other interests are witnessed by his membership in a baker...
Raising the stroke near the finish, Captain Winthrop's men drove steadily up on the Freshman boat, but the "beef trust," as the 1929 crew is nicknamed, was equal to the task and kept in the lead...
...Federation at Princeton has been invited to take part in the poll and it has been urged by the Committee that the newspaper of each institution conduct its own balloting and forward a detailed tabulation of the results to the Committee. Should the newspapers be unwilling to undertake the task, the poll might be taken by any other official body...