Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another speaker was John Ackerly, a member of the Cambridge police force who performs the specialized task of bringing into court those defendants in domestic cases who refuse to obey the stipulations of the probation officer and who refuse to come into court of their own accord. Mr. Donovan has developed a reputation in Cambridge for knowing the underworld...
Ranking the first ten tennis players for the 1930 season is a task of extraordinarily controversial character. The past campaign has been a series of upsets and surprises, culminating in the recent happenings on the Pacific coast which succeeded in knocking practically every calculation which had been formed up to that time into the proverbial cocked hat. The best ranking is bound to meet with opposition from a great number of self-appointed critics, many of whom will be just as near the demonstrable truth as the official U.S.L.T.A. decree...
...through various levels in its 13,000 or 14,000 feet. In this arid subtropical plateau there are peaks which have birds of the tropical desert at their base, of the arid subtropical plateau upon their slopes, and of the temperate regions on their summits. All this complicates the task of a cataloguer. It is necessary to state at what altitude on what mountain peak every bird is taken...
Scenario writers whose task is to portray the activities of the various gangs of racketeers, who shoot up the screen in many motion picture houses now must have exhausted their imaginations before the plot for "The Squealer" now current at the Keith Albee theatre, was concoted...
...appointment of such a man to such a position deserves more than a perfunctory gesture of recognition, for the judges of the World Court are devoting their abilities to the task of furthering the difficult cause of international peace and justice. Such men are too frequently passed by, while the destructors of their work receive the world's attention...