Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Largest and most impressive is his Glen Cove home, "The Braes," a many-chimneyed pile of red stone with white marble trimmings, baronial courtyard, fountains, gardens. In such a magnificent setting the best of French champagne would not be out of place. To the task of procuring some, Herbert Lee Pratt last spring applied himself, with the following results...
...King and Emperor, as he opened the London Naval Parley (TIME, Jan. 27). No Columbia System listener knew then that a good part of the current carrying the imperial voice over that hook-up had passed through the body of Operator Vivian, who was too preoccupied with his tingling task to hear the speech...
Banker McGarrah would not comment. Friends spoke of the "great sacrifice" it would be for him to quit his august Federal Reserve post; but few thought that he would not choose to go to Switzerland and shoulder Europe's great task...
...task of compiling these statistics was done with great thoroughness. The resulting figures are, therefore, the last word in actual facts upon this subject which has caused much discussion. They are, furthermore, of the utmost importance in another line. For by these figures, Glueck has determined about eight factors which may be used as a prognostic table to tell what the probability of a criminal's leading a law-abiding life in the future will be. Hitherto, the type of crime committed, whether major or minor, has been one of the largest considerations in the giving of a sentence...
...Monday papers for the purpose of discovering whether, in this new era, two and two may not make five. But such things as laws and institutions, methods of production, available natural resources, number and distribution of population, are in constant state of flux, so that the economist's task is never done. His materials must ever be collected anew, and his work ever repeated; the economic order changes, and the living specimens of today become in a few years the fossil remains of a bygone age. We are speaking, it will be noted, not of changes in theories...