Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those mothers of modern times, who, annoyed by children and the marriage bonds, have vilified and violated the duties which these impose. Such mothers will find it particularly useful to lift their eyes to Mary and seriously consider to what height of dignity she has elevated the very heavy task of motherhood. . . . Are they [Protestants], perhaps, ignorant of, or do not they reflect attentively on the fact that nothing can be more acceptable to Jesus Christ, who certainly burns with great love for his mother, than to venerate her according to her merits, to love her deeply . . . ?" To all Protestants...
...fight. I know the Chinese well. Anyone who knows China's long history, the characteristics of the race, the vastness of the country, must realize that for Japan or any other nation to try to wrest from them any part of their territory would be an impossible task. . . . Their greatest weapon is the economic boycott, and they are also masters at passive resistance. . . . One of the difficulties in Manchuria is that many Chinese have the belief-the obsession I might call it-that we covet Manchuria. . . . We do not. . . . Nor does Japan want any part of China proper...
...have met with obstacles," cried Scot MacDonald, "but one of those optimists to whom humanity owes the most of its progress said : 'Obstacles were made to be overcome.' In that buoyancy of spirit and good will which comes from it, let us go on with our common task ! " Facing a third and nobody knows how many more $1,000,000 conferences, St. Gandhi, who had a heavy cold, received the Prime Minister's oration with no buoyancy of spirit whatever...
...first time under western rule, and for the first time in history the birth lands of religion and civilization lie open to unobstructed study and research. In the entire history of knowledge this is the greatest opportunity . . . for the study of man and his career. . . . The noblest task in the study of man is to recover the story of the human career, which culminated in the emergence of a religion of divine fatherhood and human brotherhood...
...some constructive use in the future. All this Mr. Shorey neglected while betraying his quite natural affection for the good old days. Granting the speaker that modern culture is a barren wasteland, Phi Beta Kappa men should not be advised to eschew it for the more pleasant task of literary research. They should be urged only to insert their keys in the doors that will open more pleasant avenues of thought and culture...