Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lessons of history that the ultimate failures of dictatorships cost humanity far more than any temporary failures of democracy. ... As yet there is no definite assurance that the three-horse team of the American system of government will pull together. If three well-matched horses are put to the task of plowing up a field where the going is heavy, and the team of three pull as one, the field will be plowed. If one horse lies down in the traces or plunges off in another direction, the field will not be plowed...
According to this plan, Harvard will attempt to inoculate students with the habit of independent reading and intensive study apart from courses to prevent the after-the-degree forgetfulness of "intellectual and spiritual growth." To Dr. Conant it seems "a hopeless task to provide a complete and finished liberal education suitable to this century by four years of college work." In other words, he believes that "the only worth-while liberal education today is one which is a continuing process throughout life." Accordingly, by this "extra- curricular study" the university at Cambridge will instill that educational virus which alone retains...
...recent weeks Leon Trotsky has begun taking Walter Duranty repeatedly to task as a "dilettante journalist with a more or less Left slant." Last week Trotskyists pointed to a New York Times cable on new U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies in which Mr. Duranty wrote: "Unlike most diplomats here, Mr. Davies is profoundly interested in industrial development as a result of his own work before and during the World War. To Soviet officials, whose middle name nowadays is Industrialization, this proves as attractive as it is unexpected, and they have asked him to obtain from Washington his "own reports...
...herself be outdistanced by Great Britain's vast rearmament program comes the realization that the "armament race" is on in earnest. Mussolini is going to try to equal the preparations made by his chief rival in the Mediterranean, and a hint that this will prove no easy task appears in the warning of the Fascist Grand Council that this army mean a "total sacrifice of civil to military needs...
Although Ordzhonikidze had long been famed as Russia's greatest uprooter of bureaucracy and slasher of red tape in Soviet production, the official newsorgans said that whoever succeeded him as Commissar of Heavy Industry will "face the task of uprooting bureaucracy and restoring morale." Observed a Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Moscow: "The authorities never permit any suggestions that there might be ineradicable defects in the very system of centralized control of all Soviet industry under 'planned economy' directed by politicians. Any person making such a suggestion would automatically become a 'counter-revolutionary...