Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argue that six weeks, six months, or at most a year is ample time to solve these problems, and so it might be if one could devote himself entirely to the task. But, a busy Senior year preparing for divisionals allows little leisure to pursue such aims. Furthermore, the choice of some field of work is not psychologically a matter of spontaneous determination; it is rather an evolutionary process, one during which ideas grow and coalesce and have a chance to mature...
...interpretation of a philosopher is an hazardous task. This is especially so when the interpreter undertakes to extend the notions of the philosopher into a field which the thinker himself has only touched. Mr. Szathmary has accomplished this task and produced a small volume which is altogether remarkable...
Faced with the task of recording the exercises of the Tercentenary on a special long-lasting material for historical purposes, Hunt and Pierce discovered that a heavy pick-up would damage the sensitive acetate records...
Among the first and most feverishly idealistic projects undertaken by the League of Nations was to send a three-man commission to Persia (now Iran) to investigate the opium traffic. This task was entrusted to Frederic A. Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., one of whose nephews is now President of the U. S. He ran into a rather remarkable situation and, rather remarkably, was able to do something very practical about...
...Federal Writers' Project began its monumental task of giving the U. S. a more up-to-date "detail portrait of itself" in August 1935, when WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins picked a bespectacled, slow-speaking ex-lawyer, ex-newspaperman, ex-publicity agent, Henry Alsberg, as national director. The survivor of a helter-skelter career that included editorial writing on the New York Post, a year as secretary to the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey before the War, a post-War job as the Nation's foreign correspondent, a term as director of the Provincetown Theatre, Director Alsberg started...