Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FEARING that the American short story would be doomed if brilliant unheard of authors were denied the opportunity to have their stories published. Whit Burnett and Martha Foley, with encouragement from Edward J. O'Brien, undertook the un-remunerative task of publishing a new magazine, "Story," to contain almost exclusively stories which had been rejected because the authors were unknown, or which were refused because the style or material was considered unorthodox by editors in the leading magazines in the United States. This was a bold step since so many little magazines have started in the past decade, and have...
...ultimatum to the effect that unless Mr. Tugwell was taken out of the agricultural building he himself would resign. This may be an exaggeration, of course, of the way Mr. peek feels about it, but there is no doubt that friction has developed, and that Mr. Roosevelt has the task of bringing about harmony...
...first difficulty that had to be faced was the repression of an instinct to pick the whole of the West Point team and let it go at that. For it is no mean task to find a team better than that which represented the Army mule, except, of course Notre Dame. It is doubtful whether the Army struck up as fast a pace as it did against Harvard but after all, the judging is done on the basis of games played here and with that in mind it is difficult to imagine a much smoother running machine than the Cadet...
...have played in successes. They became drearier and drearier. They gave me my theatre. They provided for me so well that I was able to give a relative $500,000 and she got it while I was still living. But they were hopeless, deadening things. Anyone who has the task of interviewing a former actress of repute . . . might just as well be an undertaker. My idea of real happiness is to find some small corner of the world, crawl into it, and never again see my name in the paper until...
Losses by graduation and prodigals from the probation ranks alternately discourage and cheer Coach Ulen in his task of building up a worthy team this year. Although only two outstanding regulars went out of the picture by the graduation route, both of the men, B. S. Wood '33 and R. D. Fallon '33 were mainstays of the squad last year and the coach will have plenty of trouble in finding others to fill up the vacancy...