Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detective story addicts to whom the solving of crimes is a task essentially romantic last week found little romance in the memoirs of onetime Superintendent of Scotland Yard George W. Cornish. To professional sleuths crime detection is work like any other, hard, slow, tedious. Cornish of Scotland Yard is enlightening for its revelation of day-to-day police routine, its honest avoidance of spurious melodrama...
...hardly a tree, and water is lacking. Many of them came down without sun helmets and still dressed in their heavy European uniforms. All night long these soldiers and workers toil at discharging vessels that jam the harbor. The Italians have learned, at last, to avoid such a task as unloading ships in the day time...
Spring was also fond of forging Washington bank checks which he sold abroad for $10 each. To his special clients he sometimes made presents of bogus Martin Luthers. Repeatedly arrested for his knavery, Robert Spring died in poverty, left sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of detecting his forgeries from the originals...
...plot to hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose Southwick against his influential persecutors...
...choice of the Dudley Hall first floor for the center of commuter college life, was made this winter after Phillips Brooks House had refused to undertake the task for another year. The general administration of the center is under the charge of a committee of graduates consisting of Allston Burr '89 chairman, Joseph Hamlen '04, R. Amml Cutter '22, and Walter A. Smith...