Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer of 1928 Murphy was appointed Architectural Adviser for the National Government, in the task of planning Nanking as the new national capital, and also for the undertaking of designs for a great group of buildings to house the National Government...
...from Manhattan. He had been hunting all over for Mr. Shouse and wanted him to come right up to town? very important ? national duty ? great scheme in mind?must come. Jouett Shouse went up but it took Mr. Raskob two days to argue him into shouldering the task of electing a Democratic Congress in 1930. Jouett Shouse was making about $50,000 per year out of his law business. He was not breaking even at the race-tracks?few people do. There was no visible income attached to this big political job. Jouett Shouse...
...Treaty and the way the victors have administered it, he said, "incenses our people, and especially our Youth!" "The maintenance of Germany's armed forces," he added, "is the Reichstag's most important task. . . . Germany must recover her freedom!" [Widespread cheering, fierce Fascist cries of "Curtius must be imprisoned in a fortress!"-] Battle of Ballots. Result of the Chancellor's "fighting speech" was to consolidate and fire with new loyalty the Centrist-Socialist parties group which he leads -notwithstanding that the speech contained a qualifying statement that Germany will advance toward her aims ''solely along...
...class absent in Virginia, the post and its traditions are in the hands of the new third class for three weeks. During this time work is cut down to a minimum, and the third class enjoys its new Liberty to the utmost. To it is even given the important task of "welcoming" the new plebes and preparing them for the long period of training ahead of them. All too soon the first class returns to take over the reins, and then the serious work of the summer begins. The mornings are devoted to tactics, the afternoons to play...
...attempt to stem this deluge of mediocrity universities have stiffened their entrance requirements and bolstered up the standard of their curriculums. As a system of restriction this has been relatively successful and it has also lent weight and respect to a diploma, but it has rendered the task of the secondary school infinitely more difficult. As Frederick Winsor pointed out in the recently published minutes of the Harvard Alumni Association all boys must have, at least, a high school education. Many of these boys go to a private preparatory school burdened with a heritage of allegiance to Harvard or some...