Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expertly condensed by Gladys Unger and directed by Stuart Walker, the task of preserving the vitality of Great Expectations rests principally on the cast. Most memorable contributions to a gallery of 19th Century human oddities are made by Henry Hull, as monkey-faced Magwitch; Florence Reed, as monstrous old Miss Havisham; Jane Wyatt as cold-hearted Estella. Good shot: Magwitch eating cold porkpie in a graveyard...
With 135 tons of lead ready to bear down at any time to the task of getting out the November exams of which about 19,000 copies will probably be required for Harvard and Radcliffe, we fear that the neglectful student had better relinquish any vague hopes that on the morning of the exams he will find any of them unprinted. We have heard stories about the student who, armed with a pair of white flannel pants, tried to get a copy of an exam beforehand by sitting on the form. Undoubtedly there are other such legends floating about...
...audience of 200 sat through the testimony for the defense and prosecution, which lasted nearly three hours, heard the German dictator brought to task for the state killings of June 30 and later heard the opposition defend Der Fuehrer for his purge...
...than yeas. The National Industrial Conference Board, a fact-finding eye of Big Business, quizzed all 12,076 editors of U. S. newspapers and farm journals. Each editor was asked to disregard his personal opinions, report his community's sentiment. More than 5,000 responded to this ticklish task. The editors shied in droves from abstract spectres of change. Does your community, asked the Board, favor the principle of government competition with private business? No!-by 27-to-1. The Board tried a new tack. Does your community favor government competition with the transportation business? One editor in nine...
...toys to some henna-haired beauty or to a film magnate. They were wined and dined and made to feel the world was theirs, when they were really just pawns. ... If S. C.'s gridders can forget the false friendship of Hollywood and buckle down to the task of football . . . there is nothing that can stop them from vanquishing Pittsburgh Saturday...