Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...methods of quacks with whom he has had no contact. Nor can the teacher of economics be fairly attacked when those who in greedy confidence seized into their hands the control and the sweets of financial domination, ignored the rules of their own game. His was, and remains, the task of teaching economic laws and theories, alive to their conflicts and mutations n practice; but in himself usually withdrawn from their direct, everyday application on the exchanges and in the factories...
...good girl whose placidity does not seem likely to awaken failing energies. . . . The one that Injalbert carved long ago . . . did not lack charm. It was not so long before that they took the Bastille. Her energetic face showed that she still remembered it and that she considered that her task was far from finished...
...selected for this purpose and trained in the essential details of their work. W. H. Chesebrough 3L, A. H. Fine 2L, J. A. Murray 3L, C. Y. Shinamura 3L, L. L. Wadsworth, Jr. 31, O. R. Waite 3L, and Lowell Whittemore 3L were the men designated for this task...
...practice, the demands on the funds of a large institution are constantly changing, and must be handled by persons familiar with the situation, not by the inflexible provisions of a will. Furthermore the dispensation of such funds is often a task beyond the ken of a layman. The man with a casual interest in a subject, desiring to leave a sum to the students of that subject, is not necessarily a good judge of the manner of expenditure. A sincere and equitable bequest, in short, should be drawn up in one of two ways: it should either have been gone...
...depression. The public schools, it appears, are spending now about $100 per child each year, where in 1880 they spent $5. Obviously, such an increase as this offers a loophole to one in search of reductions, if only it can be shown to be unjustified. This task Mr. Mencken assumes, asking the natural question: "Has the increase in intelligence among the products of the schools been at all comparable to the increase in the cost of education...