Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emergency organization must put aside chicken-heartedness, take financial risks, forget about profits and boldly advance its credit on security which, at the moment, looks inferior. Ordinary commercial banking rules must go by the board, it is argued, if R. F. C. is to perform the task the administration...
...underpopulated, isolated by great mountain ranges. Once an entity, it has been split up. Outer Mongolia, with Soviet help, became an independent Republic in 1924 and is still closely tied to Moscow. But fertile Inner Mongolia is still under Chinese rule. To break this rule is the task General Semenov and his willing Mongol allies have set themselves. That Japan was behind the movement, would dominate the new state if it was formed, not even the Mongol princes took the trouble to deny...
...bright young Dr. Ottar Rygh. Dr. Rygh had learned how to store the mother stuff of Vitamin C, anti-scurvy. Because the process is important, U. S. nutritionists were impatient for his complete paper to reach this country. Significant quotations available last week: "It seems simple enough now. My task was to find a method by which Vitamin C could be produced in the laboratory in such form that it could be kept in storage without losing its power. Vitamin C is mainly to be found in fruit, vegetables or fresh milk from cows that have been grazing...
...Harvard senior is in a similar position when he faces the task of choosing his life work. The knowledge of the collegiate senior on his future is as vicarious and inadequate as the information of the preparatory senior in pursuit of his further education. It is to obviate, this difficulty that Harvard has established a Consultant on Careers...
...long been the custom to write of popular heroes with a zeal which prolonged their life and works through six or eight carefully documented volumes. While such biography yielded much rich material to scholars it was a tedious task for the laymen. The average reader cared little for the diplomatic achievements of a Disraeli, but he was most anxious to know what manner of man he might be. This desire Strachey was able to fulfill. He employed sufficient facts to block in his background and enough psychology to sketch in the personality. His first work was followed by a life...