Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago the announcement would have caused more of a stir, but since the Hoover Moratorium it has become increasingly evident that it will be a Herculean task to force resumption of Reparations when the year of grace is ended. London and New York took the news calmly; only the French Press screamed in anguish...
Succeeding Buckley, who was one of the original appointees of former Governof Calvin Coolidge and is largely responsible for the development of professional boxing in Massachusetts, Casey faces a tremendous task. During Buckley's 11 years as a commissioner, he has been the dominating figure in the business of the commission, and now the greater part of the retiring commissioner's duties as "spokesman" of the commission fall upon the new member...
...large cast that faced a Boston first-night audience last evening has a difficult task. It must present characters to an audience which has formed preconceived notions from reading the famous novel by J. B. Priestly. The name of the book has at once brought people to the theatre, and made them critical. In spite of this and other handicaps, however, "The Good Companions" proved the success of their play as a whole by drawing prolonged applause...
...problem before the competitors is of an unusual nature. The task is to draw up plans for a new White House, a spacious presidential residence on Analostan Island in the Potomac, opposite the Lincoln Memorial, on the supposition, suggested by government officials that the old residence be used for a historical museum. The competitors are 'given' a building, which they can place on the island in any position they choose. Guest houses, garages and other outhouses are left to the competitors consideration...
...they are a new experiment, and some years must pass before they acquire permanent traits and traditions. But they have started well, Their members--undergraduates, tutors and associates--seem happy and contented, and few serious obstacles have arisen. The masters and senior tutors have succeeded in the difficult task of selecting the applicants, so that each House contains a fair cross-section of the student body--an undertaking larger than it ever will be again, because they had to deal with three classes, whereas hereafter their attention will be almost wholly confined to freshmen, or, more strictly, prospective sophomores...