Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeeded his brother, Rev. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., as theology professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, was elected Virginia's bishop coadjutor in 1926. Said he, surprised at his election last week: "I do hope we may all unitedly go forward to the equalization of the great missionary task which Our Lord has entrusted to this Church. The only hope for overcoming the turmoil which at the present time is being manifested in so many parts of the world is in the spirit of brotherhood...
...expected to carry on its function, quite regardless of the fact that it no longer had University support and that those most interested in the stage were following Baker into the hinterland insead of coming here. Despite this handicap, the remaining members of the Club took seriously their task of forwarding the cause of progressive drama. By hard work not unmixed with inspiration, they contrived to make the Club self- supporting, to enlarge its membership, to direct into their offices a stream of unproduced plays from all over the country and, by producing the most significant of these, to focus...
TIME's self-appointed task of choosing a Man of the Year promises most interesting speculation this year, much more than in previous years. Believe me, I am not envious of TIME's editor and his staff in making 1937's selection...
...Increase Mather been among those to hear the current President of Harvard College speak at Cornell last Friday, he would have felt right at home; Mr. Conant was talking his language. For three hundred years Harvard has led the educational life of this country, and the task has not been easy. Nothing is so hard as consistent leadership, and for its present place in American life Harvard is indebted to the clear foresight and active minds of a long line of presidents and overseers...
...must confess I was never ill from eating apple butter with home made bread, but, in order to qualify, I'll offer my transgression of slipping away from a morning task for a siesta in the wood shed with a huge basket of butternuts. I was fond of them and the supply so generous I indulged past discretion. I fain recall a most distressing followup, which, I am sure, would equal or exceed any after effects of home-stirred apple butter. With this recital I hope to qualify as a member of the "Butter Stirrers" in full and regular...