Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choose, in a more obscure and humble position, against many difficulties and amid many humiliations, to continue my task in public life, it is because I want to spend the rest of my days and what is left of my strength in serving the people from whom I sprang...
...remedy? And what do the students say for themselves? At the Wesleyan University conference they were agreed that football needs to be curtailed in the interest of education. . . . And if college athletics really need revision, what more promising sign could there be than the undertaking of the task by the students themselves...
This time that over heavy task were done...
...time that the medical profession opposed vigorously the com- mercialization of medical practice. The greatest opposition can be achieved by the complete assumption of the task of periodic physical examination by individual physicians. Experience has shown that the patient is best served by a competent physician who is intimately acquainted with his problem, who has served his family for many years and who will be able to conduct such an examination according to a systematic plan...
...look for something in a department store is a task the grue- someness of. which brings about in normal people one of two reac- tions. Some long to return next day with a dynamiting crew and a trench mortar to raze to the ground and destroy utterly the madhouse of raucous voices, fetid air, stale perfumes; the shouldering, stupid, perspiring women who just want to know "how much this is"; clerks who indicate, by a sad shake of the head, that the English language is a closed book to them. Other customers, less bloody-minded, merely dream of saying...