Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item 3. Provides genuine enforcement of prohibition where the people want it. Does not force an unpopular law upon states where the majority of the people oppose it. Lightens the task of the federal government, which does not have adequate machinery to enforce the prohibition laws...
...undertake the task efficiently, reorganization of the Coast Artillery was planned. Undermanned, undermonied, cuffed about as a useless military appendage, the service since the War has suffered from lack of facilities for training, practice. Corrective plans: to organize a new (69th) Coast Artillery anti-aircraft regiment ; to concentrate personnel for training and practice at five posts* where all facilities will be available; to leave skeletonized crews in other posts to oil unused armaments...
...became Papal Nuncio to Germany, added Lutheran Prussia to the list of states in the good graces of mother church. One task of particular delicacy faces him in the next months: powerful, anti-religious Soviet Russia...
...several days, the best minds of Ihlamour bent to the task of extracting Yusuf's duck. Scheme A was to lower a large shallow bucket down the well in the hope that the duck would swim into it. Several times the duck did so, but always flopped out before the bucket could be hauled to the surface. Scheme B was to tie fish lines to hard indigestible crusts of bread in the hope that Yusuf's duck would swallow line and crust, allow himself to be hauled to the surface. Yusuf's duck did not. Scheme...
...rest of his life to education he expounded the theory that: "Racketeering is nothing but a revolt against the present improper and ineffectual system of teaching. If taught properly every boy upon leaving school could go to an employer and say he was specifically fitted to perform a given task. Now they say: 'I went through high school' or 'I went through college.' That doesn't mean anything. But if they said they are a machinist, a chemist or a cabinetmaker, that does mean something. . . . I would not be surprised if I spent one hundred...