Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Research workers set themselves to the task of finding the relative Vitamin G content of various foods. The results of this work will be announced at Atlanta. One paper will deal with beef, will rank the value-parts as: liver, kidney, heart, muscle...
...place in the modern world can be compared in difficulty to the station of the man in public life, it is that of his wife. His task is hard enough; petty minutiae, the uncomprehending objections of the people he would serve, contrive to annoy him; yet a little praise from those people, though it may be slow in coming, can sweeten the bitterness of a thousand quibbling opponents. For the woman who is a conscientious helpmeet, however, there are innumerable trails and duties without the prospect of direct self-satisfaction; the pleasure of success can be for her at best...
...business today rests heavily on such vague but vital things as "confidence" and "goodwill." Dr. Schacht was talking truth when he said last week: "After the second Hague Conference nothing remained of mutual cooperation, nothing of confidence in Germany, nothing of helping Germany to carry out the difficult task prescribed in the Young Plan. ... I am even now willing to accept the Young Plan in the Young spirit. What is now before the Reichstag I call the Hague Protocol. Sanctions [the right of the Creditor Powers to punish Germany if she defaults] have been introduced again. . . . Germany...
Although he has never been associated with the magazine business, Publisher Martin is a director of Curtis Publishing Co. To him will ultimately, evidently, fall the task of carrying on all the gigantic Curtis interests. With spectacular prudence, his life is insured for $6,000,000? the U. S. record...
...reports from the 16 major league training camps are pouring up. Ruth has signed for $80,000; Dan Howley says, "Give me a team that will fight after July 4"; Bill McKechnie has the delightful task of putting the Braves in first division and keeping them there. Every team has already played several exhibition games and they're already doping out how the teams will stand at various intervals during the season. As yet every manager hasn't made the statement that his team will be "right in there" if he gets the pitching, fielding and hitting. But they will...