Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years and one of his pet hobbies was writing a short column of "If you see it in the Sun it isn't always so." "If you see it in the Sun" was Dana's pet caption. I have inherited his hobby and recently took you to task when you called citizens of Caracas, Venezuela, something other than Caracanians. One of your editorial staff wiggled out of that one but this time I have you right. In TIME, Feb. 1. you say that the normal blood pressure of a man Mayor Walker...
...broad enough vision to carry on the dreams of the branch banking and in vestment empire which Transamerica rep resented. Soon after Mr. Giannini retired friction became apparent. Friends of Mr. Walker think that when, in the early part of 1930, he became fully familiar with the task ahead of him, he was aghast at the true situation, and has since labored tirelessly to turn Transamerica fiction into the greatest possible amount of auditable fact. But Mr. Giannini did not expect his retirement to be as complete as it was any more than King Lear expected to be neglected after...
...presented to the plenary session of the Assembly for consideration and action. Leadership in the model meeting of the League Council, which will discuss the pressing crisis in Manchuria and in Shanghal, will likewise fall to the group representing the French delegation. These delegates anticipate a difficult task in defence of the French position, one which has been subject to severe criticism in the past few years...
...case could be made for the advantages of such a change, but the argument would be superficial. There are, Dr. Erskine points out, "a few ideas, a few problems which belong to all time." And it is with these problems that the universities should be most deeply concerned. Their task is to sift the vital knowledge of the ages from the dust of its dead framework...
...responsibility of the schools under a scheme such as that which has been suggested is greatly increased. For the task of real education is as far removed from drilling on certain rigidly set material as is the work of an artist from that of an accountant. With the complete "New Plan" in force, however, the schools at all events would be deprived of a long-standing excuse for much arid and unfruitful instruction...