Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find that one of our greatest problems is located in the vicinity of Hanover, New Hampshire," reads a semi-official statement of the W.C.T.U. The Harvard Stadium clean-up squad, entrusted with the task of clearing away empty bottles from beneath the stands, has often sympathized with that organization after visits of the Indian team to Cambridge. It is only too clear that serious temptation lies in the way of any clean American youth at Dartmouth College...
...Nielson, president of Smith College, also sent the Cambridge committee a wire of endorsement, urging them that there is no more important task before the United States today "than that of creating here and now a fresh realization of the fundamental democratic idea and of the supreme necessity of preserving our intellectual freedom...
...need to declare a Republic of Ireland. . . . There is no need to reaffirm the declaration of Irish independence. The hour has come for a supreme effort to make both effective, so in the name of the unconquered dead and the faithful living we pledge ourselves to the task. . . . We call upon the people of Ireland ... to assist us in the efforts we are about to make in God's name...
Lincoln Steffens once called Boston the most corrupt city in the U. S. During the past eight years the Boston political machine ruled State as well as city. Last week Massachusetts' new Governor, cowcatcher-chinned Leverett Saltonstall, began the Augean task of purging Massachusetts of corruption. First pile into which he plunged his shovel was the State Education Department...
Teachers College at Columbia is straying from its task. By the evidence of these recurrent Monday morning sensations, it is more interested in freak publicity than in sober common sense. Teaching is a profoundly important profession and faces a formidable task. The decision at Harvard strengthens it for the struggle. The action of Teachers College at Columbia breaches its defenses. -Boston Evening Globe...