Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have mellowed, and, if one may say so, he seems more human [than three years ago]. During the previous interview I was particularly struck by the low tonelessness of M. Stalin's voice - as if he felt the need of conserving every atom of energy for his gigantic task. Now he shows more animation and less restraint...
...moment for the teacher -- he suggests ways out of the difficulty. The hope is that the student will leap at suggestions because his mind has already fumbled for them, feels a definite need for them, and so sees their significance. This is the new conception of the teacher's task; and this must be the new conception of the teaching method of economics...
...working class income as a whole, and that as far as our knowledge of business cycles goes consumer spending appears to be of less importance than investor spending. Similarly Professor Mason disposes of many loose notions on what constitutes unfair competition, and he also gives clear warning that the task of adjusting production to consumption and prices to costs is far from the simple matter it may appear to be to the business man who fails to see beyond the range of his own particular problems...
...enumerate all of President Gomez's accomplishments since he has occupied the Presidency of this country would be too lengthy a task...
...ether-concept. Eighteen years later Albert Einstein posited the central feature of the "special theory of relativity"-that there was no such thing as the motion of bodies through a stationary ether, that bodies could move only in relation to one another. Meanwhile Michelson had begun a lifetime task of determining it down to the last fraction of a mile per second. Seven years ago he flashed a beam of light between Mt. Wilson and Mt. San Antonio, 22 mi. away, clocked it over &; over, finally announced that light's speed was 186.284 mi. per sec., with a probable...