Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowledge. Such a course would be a history of science and of the development of scientific thought. For the non-scientific student this course would go much farther toward his understanding of the scientific attitude than the former type. Granted, a comprehension of this view is an exceedingly difficult task, one which has been accomplished by few, but to achieve at least come insight into man's mind as it has progressed through the centuries in its effort to understand the complexities of the life with which he was faced, is possible through this method...
...Millions (Samuel Goldwyn). A Brooklyn tugboat youth named Eddie (Eddie Cantor) inherits $77,000,000 from an uncle who was an Egyptologist. When he goes to Egypt to collect his legacy, his task is complicated by an unscrupulous Virginia grandee, a male and female racketeer (Warren Hymer and Ethel Merman), a naive agent of his solicitors who loves the Virginian's niece (Ann Sothern). On the boat, Eddie barely escapes death at the hands of the racketeers. In Egypt he is lured to a sheik's palace, narrowly misses being boiled in oil by the sheik, being murdered...
...Steele (Earle Larimore of the Theatre Guild), a brain specialist, by her family physician who is unable to diagnose an obscure ailment of which she is as intolerant as she is afraid. Dr. Steele, about to move to Vermont and settle down to general practice, has the unhappy task of discovering that the young woman has a brain tumor which will kill her in ten months...
During the opening months of college, the newcomer is faced with the difficult task of orienting himself in a novel environment. With college curricula and compulsory athletics engaging the major part of his attention, he has little opportunity to meet the members of his class. His acquaintances are limited to the men coming from his own preparatory school and the small number whom he has met in his dormitory and classes. Suddenly confronted with a list of candidates for class officers, he is totally unqualified to make an intelligent choice and often votes blindly for the men whose exploits...
...disconsolate Republicans are concerned, their task is far more difficult than that of the Democrats, and their responsibility to the country fully as great. Confronted with a well-nigh hopeless minority in Congress, the Republican party has nevertheless a real opportunity for reorganization and renewed strength as the only articulate Opposition likely to be heard in America for some time to come. It is the only bulwark against the evils inherent in a bureaucracy so unprecedented as that now being formed in Washington. It must take a firm stand on the issues that confront the next Congress: inflation, the bonus...