Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homer Martin and Richard Frankensteen, C. I. O.'s chief Detroit organizer, started from Lansing over icy midnight roads with an escort of State troopers to call the men out. And that was no easy task. John Lewis' word was by no means law to these thousands of raw recruits in his labor movement. It took Martin & Frankensteen twelve hours of driving, explaining, arguing, but finally, with bands playing and flags flying, out they all marched from the Dodge, De Soto and seven other Chrysler plants. And in marched State troopers to guard Chrysler Corp.'s property...
...diagnosis of the ailments that have sapped the strength of debating at Harvard in recent years, it is doubtful whether the changes recommended are drastic enough to bring about a renaissance. For however vital the improvements in the Council's technique of management may be, the first and foremost task is to breathe the breath of life into the dead clay of general undergraduate interest...
With the addition of a stop light on the road, which shifted continually, control of the radiator became a Herculean task. Dr. DeSilva explained that the average driver can stay on the road 64 percent of the time, but some are in the ditch 90 percent of the test. If the car were left to steer itself, it would be in the ditch only 30 percent...
While ending the annual bout between six hundred weary students and Finer's analysis of the German bureaucracy, the April Hour Examination in Government 1 renews the instructors' difficult task of adjusting grades to the Lowell Distribution Curve. Adopted years ago after a scientific study of Freshman marks, the Curve has long served as the God which all Yardling markers must reverence. Although the high calibre of Government One bluebooks now soars above the scientifically established limits, section men are warned not to violate the Gospel according to Lowell. But changing conditions must make too rigid adherence to a static...
Back in Bar Harbor last week, preparing for a big swing around the country when the Women's Field Army drive begins this week, Dr. Little resonantly declared of his new task: "Why do I feel so deeply about it? Because I have both experienced, understood and, I am afraid, caused too much suffering, and hate it. Because my own father died as a result of cancer. Because perhaps whatever ancestral desire I have to explore the unknown is appealed to by the research work and the wish to be a 'crusader,' which almost...