Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What improvements and simplifications Innovator Gregg has made in the stenographer's task are attributable to: 1) all characters being written with the same intensity; 2) characters based on longhand script rather than applications of geometric figures (Pitman system); 3) incorporation of vowels into the word-figure. But so individualized is all but professional shorthand writing that few stenographers can read one another's script...
...wish to emphasize that I had nothing to do with the Japanese Government's decision to sign the Treaty, nor shall I have anything to do with its final ratification by the Privy Council," were almost the Chief Delegate's first words, and he added positively: "My task was to help make the Treaty. I have finished. The Treaty is made...
...Faith and Beauty!" Next day Guest Prestes was welcomed to the imposing, white marble Pan-American Building by Statesman Stimson, who as an old school New York lawyer gallantly attempted an oration which would sound sufficiently fiery and cordial when cabled to Rio: ". . . Delightful task of welcoming you! ... In the history of international relations no country occupies a prouder place than Brazil...
Seymour Parker Gilbert: A young man called to the relentless task of carrying out the reparation settlement, who achieved the incredible...
...Adamses wrote voluminously, but not till the fourth generation found writing the only public career left open to them. Henry Adams wanted to influence politics by his pen. He found it an endless, hopeless task. His most famed book, The Education of Henry Adams, was published posthumously (1918). Long out of_political power, the Adamses are still in the public eye. "Today a third Charles Francis, the son of John Quincy's grandson John Quincy, is head of the family. A Harvard graduate, like all of his family since John; for 30 years treasurer of the University; a lawyer...