Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a position such as that of headmaster or principal, calls for a combination of scholarly interests effective guidance of young people and an active participation in the affairs of the community, as well as offering a real challenge to those whose training and qualifications fit them for the task...
...students who should be exempt from entrance examinations. A stand among the first five or ten of the graduating class would be sufficient to secure admission. This was another logical step in the cutting of the red tape which makes the passage from school to college an educational task rather than a natural evolution...
...John Simon, the British Empire's august new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (see p. 19) toiled most of last week at the congenial task of earning $125.000 by his efforts to win an appeal in the case of famed Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, sentenced to one year's imprisonment for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus (TIME, Aug. 10, et ante...
...Imperial Naval Office at Kiel and in the Naval Ministry. Member of the Norddeutscher Lloyd board at the end of the War, he saw the fleet reduced to a handful of small, obsolete ships. For Dr. Slimming, who succeeded Philip Heineken as director in 1921, was the colossal task of rebuilding the line. In 1927 he succeeded in raising a $20,000,000 loan in the U. S., sold $9,000,000 in Norddeutscher Lloyd shares. By the time of his death, Dr. Stimming had accumulated 942,162 tons of ships, restored the pre-War service of one express liner...
...articles from Nation, Christian Century, FORTUNE, Outlook, Harper's, New Republic. In the publishers' words the magazine will "convey a cross section picture of the Jew . . . express no editorial opinion, sponsor no 'isms' . . . leave to the organizations which are better equipped for the purpose the task of safeguarding Jewish rights...