Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That their private customers were selected because of long business and personal relations, not for political influence. "It seems extraordinary that we should be taken to task . . . simply because chance has brought some of them into high office and mischance has impaired the fortunes of others...
...deliberately risked for the sake of his valid achievements. A part of Hart Crane's ambition, as his essay on "Modern Poetry," (included in this volume) indicates, was to assimilate the urban and mechanical aspects of contemporary life while resuming Whitman's celebration of the American nation. To this task he brought an exceptionally large and varied poetic vocabulary, and it fecundity in metaphor with appears unique in contemporary poetry. Poems like "Lachrymae Christi," "Belle Isle, " and-the lyrical portions of "The Bridge," have surface brightness of texture alien to most modern poetry. It is possible that Crane, as almost...
...effect was that $500,000,000 worth of churches and church property were nationalized-to be left in the clergy's trusteeship for the time being but free to be seized or sold at the first hint of anti-government activity. Only the more conservative realized the tremendous task that the Government was undertaking: training and placing in schools nearly 80,000 lay teachers before Jan. 1, to take the places of the monks and nuns who for centuries have taught Spaniards all that they thought necessary...
...individual student. The result, in instance after instance, is that the Freshman is obliged to get his information from various and sundry unsatisfactory sources: he consults a Senior whom he knows; he listens to the gossip among the more cock-sure of his colleagues; or he gives up the task, and relies on the fates to lead him to the right choice of a schedule...
...same day that the Crop Reporting Board tossed its statistic to the public the big four in world wheat (U. S., Canada, Argentina, Australia) met by proxy under the tent of the League of Nations at Geneva. Theirs was not the task of interpreting past short crops (which have been notably lacking) but of trying to bring about more short crops in the future. Two years ago they met on a similar mission in London, went home empty handed because the U. S. declared it could do nothing about restricting production...