Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxon, will utterly abandon his ideally enlightened self to the diligent pursuance of any task not altogether turpiludicrous. Will not suffer his already-disgusted self to consider programmes redolent of get-rich-in-a-hurry schemes. Romantic ladies kindly neutral. Address...
...Next task for Headmaster Richards was to improve his teaching system. Announced last week was this unusual plan, test-proved last Spring: 1) Henceforth each academic schedule period will be divided into two 45-min. periods, the first for recitation, the second for supervised preparation of the next day's lesson. 2) Every fifth appointment period in each course will be devoted to review and research. Boys will prepare written reports on their work. 3) Realizing that there are more and less advantageous periods throughout the day, Headmaster Richards has arranged a daily "staggered, rotating schedule." For instance...
Editor Howe leaped eagerly at the task, sent for his friend A. B. MacDonald, shrewd crime reporter for the Kansas City Star. Well-trained Reporter MacDonald promptly questioned Lawyer Payne about every woman he had known. Payne spoke freely, elaborately of a dozen or more, skipped lightly over the name of Mrs. Verona Thompson, his former private secretary, "so plain and ordinary no one would look at her." Catching the scent, Howe and MacDonald immediately sought Mrs. Thompson, found her to be an attractive widow, wrung from her an admission that Payne had promised to run off with her after...
...piece itself was adapted with a heavy hand by Frederic & Fanny Hatton from the Hungarian of Alexander Engel and Alfred Grunwald. An impression is created that the adapters got a great deal of secret pleasure out of translating the play and must have been continually conscious that their task was somewhat naughty...
...weeks at $2,500 a concert this autumn. The Riccis feared for Ruggiero's health. Lackey counsel pointed to chubby, healthy Yehudi Menuhin.* The Riccis countered with Pianist Josef Hofmann's exploitation when a boy. Declared the court of prodigies in general, of Ruggiero in particular: "No such prodigious task confronts him [Ruggiero] as the one imposed on Hofmann, who, while touring America gave 50 public concerts in two and a half months. . . . May not a career of concert giving, extended over a period of years, produce a loss of freshness and spontaneity in the young artist? He may become...