Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrine already contains bones of John de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant and Charles Gamier, Jesuit colleagues in the task of converting the Hurons, whom the Iroquois had vowed to exterminate. The cruelties and hardships to which they submitted were rewarded by canonization last June, the two requisite miracles for that purpose having been duly accepted by the Congregation of Sacred Rites. One was the perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Marie-Maxima of the religious House of St. Hyacinth, in Quebec; the other, the equally perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Savoie of the diocese of Chatham (Canada). Both Sisters were...
...Royal Government "should not find itself in a suitable position" to award the income from this money each year as a Peace Prize it should entrust the task to the Dutch-appointed directorate of the Palace of Peace (Carnegie Peace Foundation) at The Hague...
...were seven $1,000 bills, dug from the shell of one of Ma nagua's banks. Four other persons, thirst-crazed, were shot by Marines as they tried to drink the polluted lake waters. Soldiers shot two grave diggers who refused to go on with their heart-breaking task. Saturday night, as Marines snatched a moment of sleep, a loud fusillade rang out. A U. S. lieutenant and a Guardia sergeant. both nerve-frazzled beyond self-control, had gone at each other with pistol and submachine gun. The lieutenant was killed...
...last time, the task or removing all six miles of board walks from paths in the Yard, and in other University property has been completed. Announcement has been made that a four-year program of macadamizing the present walks will start this summer. If appropriations are generous enough, authorities hope to eliminate all wooden walks...
...review of a show in which Ed Wynn appears soon resolves itself into a biography of the man, which is fortunate in this case. The supporting cast with one exception is so incompetent that criticism of them would be a most unpleasant task. Without further ado, therefore, let us turn back to Mr. Wynn. He goes through the usual musical comedy hokum in his usual Wynning way. The remarkable fact about him is that, while he is never silent, he is never boring. When the lines fail to arouse the audience to excesses of amusement he invents new ones, which...