Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...analysis of the data on the health and employment of 68,000 sick individuals in Boston obtained by the Unemployment Census for six months of 1933-34 is the first task in the general investigation...
...appreciate the serious task devolving upon the general government at this time, but the constitutional powers which have been sufficient to deal with the great emergencies of the past we still enjoy unimpaired. The decision of the Supreme Court curtails them in no respect...
...only enough knowledge about one's subject to be able to convey it to other individuals, but a complete understanding of his students. This latter knowledge can only be acquired after much experience, and a close study of and contact with these students. It is an all-absorbing task, if done correctly, and tends in itself to exclude preoccupation with other fields of pure research. Nevertheless, I think that most of the people in the Fine Arts have at one point or another been forced into this compromise and the standards of creative research as well as the standards...
...neither Ambassador Saito nor his enterprising staff would deny that their task has been made infinitely easier than that of their predecessors. A prime source of diplomatic boondoggling has been removed. For since Saito has been in the U. S., his great & good friend cocky Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota has torn the mask off Japan's "mission in the Orient," has come out flatly and finally for Asia for the Asiatics, i. e. the Japanese. An illustration of how neatly this mission was progressing was at hand last week. After months of negotiation, Foreign Minister Hirota was about...
...this is one reason why at least a full course in science (not a half-course, as stated in the editorial) is required for admission to it. The history of science unquestionably requires a knowledge of at least six major fields: in its highest form it is a task of painstaking research and profound scholarship. Dr. Sarton's massive volumes, modestly titled "An Introduction to the History of Science," attests this well. To offer such a course to men who are too lazy to take an elementary science course would be the height of absurdity. And it is searcely tenable...