Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What It Was About. The Labor Government of Ramsay MacDonald was faced last week with the almost impossible task of balancing a budget with a deficit of some $583,000,000* (TIME...
...waters of the Yangtze, swollen by last month's rains-rose to 53.4 ft., ten feet above flood level, and continued going higher, relief agencies were mobilizing for a task that looked impossible. Of China's great central plain, an area 500 by 1,000 miles was affected by the floods, not only of the Yangtze but of the Hwai River to the north. Homeless were 30,000,000 people; 10,000,000 were utterly destitute, with hundreds dying daily. Eventually, it was estimated, the death toll would reach 2,000,000. Pestilence was abroad, was to become...
...when you think the end has come and the formidable task of destroying a mouse has been accomplished, the struggle begins again as desperately as before, until at last death takes back the determined little life that nature has created...
...notified that her name was not included in the budget for the next fiscal year at the university. Disciplinary power at Wisconsin University now will rest with a committee on which the Dean of Women and the Dean of Men have no vote. Too few realize the enormous task faced by a dean of women in these days, standing as she does in the center of a dramatic clash between the "new liberalism" and standards of conduct which parents who trustfully send their immature and eagerly searching sons and daughters to the university believe to be beyond any challenge...
...sheet is the "rubber da rag" (read the paper) anecdote. The story is told of a new man in the ad alley, a chap who was assigned the job of setting up an ad for one of Butte's big department stores. This man had begun his task when it occurred to him that perhaps the store in question employed individual makeup and type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest, why don't yuh rubber...