Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the local fraternity has to do is to select the prettiest girl from a group of twenty-four whose pictures accompanied the request. The task was tackled with considerable complacency, but today a decision was apparently far from being reached and all hands admitted they were stumped. The judges, too, expressed keen disappointment over the fact that no names, addresses or telephone numbers accompanied the pictures...
Prime mover and President of the L. W. C. is Dr. John Alfred Morehead, 62, of Manhattan, native Virginian, onetime Lutheran pastor, onetime (1908-19) President of his alma mater, Roanoke College (Va.). He studied at Leipzig and Berlin, is well-traveled. His task of unifying Lutherans, even on paper, is calculated to require five or six years. Dr. Morehead is now the first world executive of any Protestant denomination...
...house. To speak bluntly, this is a preposterous situation. The youth who has devoted seven or eight years, first to college and then to university study, and who is judged competent and of promise to enter the academic career, should not be faced with any such conditions. A first task, therefore, is to raise sharply the compensation of those who choose the academic career when they first enter upon it, so that the limitations now put upon them and the embarrassments to which they are now subject may be as few as possible...
...city of specialists. Its directories are filled with the names of psychoanalysts, gynecologists, ichthyologists, bacteriologists, geologists, botanists. But unique among Vienna's specialists is Professor Dr. Heinrich Hoefflinger, historian. For years he has burrowed with prying pencil among the secret archives of European Royalty, in the monumental task of discovering and listing all the illegitimate children of all the royal houses of Europe, a work which has earned him among his Viennese students the entirely unofficial degree of B. N. (Baccalarius Nothorum, "Bachelor of Bastardy...
...hard wooden benches to watch the unreeling of The Crowd, a slightly morbid U. S. cinema depicting the struggles of a New York clerk and the distressing death of his little daughter. The only grownups in the audience were the theatre's three scrubwomen, delegated to the task of suppressing unnecessary Hogmanay enthusiasms...