Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importations of gold and silver from the new world. Although Spain distributed the new stock of metals, no statistical study has yet been made of price movements in Spain, nor has there been any substantial study of Spanish Commerce and its relation to the export of specie. The task is so large that the cooperation of a number of research workers will be necessary; candidates for the doctor's degree at Harvard and other universities will doubtless bear the brunt of the work, but it is hoped that others may also be induced to cooperate. Effective planning of the scheme...
...faithful voiced its solid appreciation for a finished performance of a really fine comedy as the curtain fell on the final miracle of a benevolent "bon Dieu." Even if "le bon Dieu" did turn out to be a "Deus ex machina," no one could deny that the task of bringing the first act situation to a happy conclusion was a miracle of omniscience...
...elective system had its origin in the tremendous growth of knowledge in the last century. The fund of facts in an increasing number of fields finally became so great that the educators, completely overwhelmed by it, had to turn the task of selection over to green Freshmen, who were not qualified to make wise choices. This burden of knowledge which is threatening to crush education under its weight is analogous to the structural overloading of our civilization. Perhaps this increasing pressure of our civilization on itself, and the overloading of education by our civilization. Perhaps this increasing pressure...
...places are the crude places. Only the occasional eye notices the delicate nuances of character, wishes to notice them. Yet it is for such that Sutton Vane wrote his play--and it is for such that the Copley players are producing it. So one must credit them with a task, verging on the impossible--a task so often ably executed that one has moments of believing the impossible has been attained--and by a stock company...
...financial situation of European students after the War was the worst possible. The irrational economic policy of most countries during the War and the waste of energies for unproductive purposes, resulted in reducing nearly the whole of Europe to a condition which made it a difficult task for even the victorious to re-establish the sound basis of their economic policy. This economic debacle, the deterioration of money, affected the middle class first, especially the government employees, pensioners, rentiers, and through these the children, just those who made up the bulk of European university students. The cost of living increased...