Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resident of Nashville, President Hill will soon move to Louisville. His first major task will be to air-condition L. & N. trains.* As for streamlining, he plans to "stand on the sidelines and watch others move." Slight and grey-haired, at 56 President Hill looks less like a major railroad executive than the schoolmaster he once set out to be. A banker on the side, he is married, has two children, will get twice as much ($40,500) in his new job as in his old. Negro Cook Humphrey Bowling of "No. 99," the president's private car, rates...
...Actors. Whatever the Theatre Guild does, it does well. Directors John Houseman and Herbert Biberman were up against a particularly difficult task in casting Valley Forge. They had to get actors who looked like Colonial revolutionists instead of a table full of diners at Sardi's theatrical restaurant. And they had to get actors who could speak Playwright Anderson's semi-versified lines with conviction. Stanley Ridges is a particularly happy choice for the character of hard bitten Lucifer Tench. No less happy is the casting of Margalo Gillmore as the full-blown, romantic Mary Philipse. As Washington, Philip Merivale...
...trend of education at the more progressive colleges--and particularly at Harvard--negates the conception that the task of a secondary school is merely to provide its graduates with a supply of facts. Although this situation is well understood, the college authorities continue in their entrance requirements to encourage superficiality...
...purposes of the expeditions is to link the undetermined chronologies of these cultures with those of the Antilles and Columbia. This is a difficult task, since little is known about Venezuelan archeology. The Spanish Conquest of this region took place later than it did in other parts of the New World, and the records of the explorers, the only written material available to the archeologists, are woefully inadequate...
Literary guides are not elected either by popular vote or by a session of their peers for theirs is usually a self-appointed task. But few better-qualified men could have been chosen to write a literary history of his contemporaries than Critic-Editor Frank Swinnerton. His middle-of-the-road guidebook to the Georgians (Henry James to T. S. Eliot) will be a useful Baedeker for literary sightseers; it does not pretend to be the last word in a never-ending critical argument...