Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had confidently believed, held secure by the will of Old Joe, who had decreed that his papers must never be sold, must be carried on by his children and their children, Worlds without end? . . . Gloomily, hardly daring to look at one another, they returned to the task of getting out what might be the very last edition...
Siedoi in his wanderings finds old Grigorii, a human companion of his youth. Together they perform the task of herdsman for the village on the Prince's estate. Thus it befalls that Siedoi does occasionally see lovely Svietlana again. Meantime he makes the acquaintance of various village dogs, Katok, the all-around hunter who belongs to the peasant boy Fedka; Riabtchik, the practically insane watchdog; and Tsygan, a watchdog who absolutely is insane, having lived always and only at the end of a chain in a dark stall...
Statesmen seems to reach the summit of power only to see for the first time the bottomless valley of oblivion which lies beyond. Realizing that the paths of political glory lead only to the grave, Premier Benito Mussolini has undertaken the task of insuring his immortality in the less transitory world of letters. The world's most famous virtuoso in political showmanship will make his debut as a playwright with and epic to be produced at the Hungarian National Theater...
...manuscripts, and medieval illuminated music of extreme value is being held for a short while at the Dunster House Book Shop, at Boylston and South Streets prior to the removal of the collection to the house of a client on the North Shore. The shop has nearly finished the task of bringing together the required volumes, mostly complete sets of famous authors in beautiful hand-made bindings and with hand painted decorations. Several Harvard undergraduates have helped in the book-seeking and cataloguing...
...post last week and make room for General Weygand, 64, the War Ministry declared that "Marshal Pétain has sought retirement for several years," but that even now he cannot be spared. He was asked last week "to contribute his great experience and high authority to a new task as difficult as it is delicate." The task: to arrange coordination between the Ministries of Air, War and Navy in such a way as to provide in war time a complete and rational air barrier around the whole of France...