Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that several courses can be taken only if a student has satisfied requirements by passing certain College Boards. Confusion on this point can be avoided only if these honor students are assigned Advisors thoroughly familiar with Language Requirements, the courses offered by various departments, and whose special task it is to see to their charges' welfare throughout their first year--a function which the average Advisor is incapable of filling...
...ignominious death, he sat down in the imperial seat with what grace he could muster. No fool, he soon saw his chance to bring Rome back to a state of grace in which she would once more be ready for Republican rule. He set himself to the task with pertinacious common sense, worked long hours to bring Roman order out of imperial chaos...
...about 350,000 in 1935. But with millions of Jews of Eastern and Central Europe facing economic starvation at best and physical extermination at worst, the progress achieved is only a slight beginning. Jews did and are doing all in their power to facilitate the gigantic task of finding a new home for millions, but this task can be only carried out if the British administration will cease obstructing Jewish efforts and will live up to the obligation undertaken in Art. 6 of the Mandate for Palestine...
...Army Plan eliminates much costly delay and confusion during the early and critical days of conflict. Such an innovation, calling for reorganization and amplification of the echelons of command from G. H. Q. down, required tireless indoctrination and was not accomplished merely by issuing a general order. A comparable task would be scrambling and rewiring under an entirely different system New York City's telephone exchange...
...rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem of getting her a new hack horse, they hire a professional horse thief from a Madison Square Garden rodeo. He is a desk cowboy with wild eyeballs who in the picture's most hilarious sequence...