Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...viewing the problem from all sides, there is a great task before tonight's assemblage. The gathering should not welsh by choosing Walsh, as it has done twice previously, nor should it hit on Glass as a light in the darkness. It ought to garner its votes carefully. So many things must be remembered, as for example the farmers' approval of Baker. It is not inconceivable that Smith might forge ahead of the party again. In case they get stuck, they can walk softly with Roosevelt. This is not impossible, for in making Donkeys of themselves the delegates...
Here England's prize editor was allotted the task of serving, unassisted, as kitchen-boy in a kitchen feeding 50 or 60 people. In 1923 he accompanied Gurdjieff, with some 40 other pupils, on a tour of the U. S. In 1924 he was assigned the task of spreading the Gurdjieff ideas in America. Known by his editorial reputation to a few people in New York, Gurdjieffite Orage soon proselytized scores of the intelligentsia. Americans began to flock to Fontainebleau. But in 1924 an automobile accident almost killed Gurdjieff; he was forced to discontinue the activities of his Institute...
...Crimson's outburst was not taken very seriously beyond Cambridge. At Princeton the Daily Princetonian politely opined that "the man who can show himself capable of carrying through the double task ought to be given every feasible encouragement and opportunity to undertake it." The New York World-Telegram, citing Herbert Hoover as a student who worked his way through college, exclaimed: "There would be more sense in barring those who earn none of their expenses than those who earn...
...commute the sentences to a real term of imprisonment; for only thus could he have assured the natives of his impartiality and secured a retrial of the offending Hawaiians. At present, law in Hawaii stands riddled with race prejudice and contempt; to reestablish its prestige will prove a task almost impossible under present conditions of faltering leadership and public indifference...
...when promotions are made. As a result the able and ambitious man turns from his students to the presses, for he sees that the royal road to a professorship lies primarily through books. Hence instructors are too often well-meaning but inexperienced young men, or scholars to whom the task of teaching is secondary...