Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time, the requirements of daily college life, which were formerly necessary to hold him to his task, have become irksome and constrictive. If he is happy enough to fall into a train of meditation, hardly is he well launched when--"Clang! Clang!" the college bell calls him off to a lecture...
...intellectual freedom and under adequate instructional inspiration and guidance; in preparation for effective participation as a responsible adult in the world in which he lives, in all ways as an intelligent active member in his community, his nation and the fellowship of nations. For going on with the task of self-understanding, self government, and self-development in the life that now is, and for the life that is to come. --John Palmer Gavit, "College...
Roused perhaps by "Oxford bags", a British lady whose native tact causes her to remain anonymous has recently undertaken the brobdingnagian task of reforming man's dress. She seems to have begun with the idea of how uncomfortable the poor dears must be in stiff collars, boiled shirts, dragging trousers, "kidney-exposing waistcoats", and everything else that makes the male a pleasing object, at least to himself; and ends with the suggestion that, discarding all such modifications of the strait-jacket, men attire themselves in gaudy jumper blouses, short fur coats, bright colored pajamas and shoes of vivid leathers...
...brought all operations to such a complete standstill last week that Marshal Pétain entrusted the High Command of the French forces to General Naulin and set out from Fez for Paris. To correspondents at Marseilles he remarked, "The military action is terminated. I now turn over the task to the statesmen...
Chauncey Brewster Tinker (blood relative of Bishop Chauncey B. Brewster), able and popular Yale professor, interpreter of Boswell, read an address by Thomas L. Raymond, Mayor of Newark, N. J., in the latter's enforced absence. Wrote Mayor Raymond: "The task of the Catholic Church today is to create an age of faith through the medium of an order of celibate preachers...