Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote given Roosevelt makes it obvious that no opposition campaign manager could have won the election. Mr. Hamilton suddenly found himself faced with the task of mobilizing the forces of a major party in four months. Except in state and local governments he could not rely on patronage, as Mr. Farley could. Nor did he have a well greased machine of relief workers, AAA check recipients, and thousands of others receiving financial benefits from the government. Hamilton has great odds to figlit against, and he did the best he could under adverse circumstances...
...project of the Senior Committee severs the Gordian knot of hoary inefficiency and greases the wheels of progress. Seniors who have had previous experience in Album management will be able to accomplish their task with less trouble and nervous palpitations. The student Council deserves credit for its timely action...
Melone said that his board, when they took over the task of planning for the 1937 Album, found themselves handicapped by ignorance of their predecessors' experiences in dealing with engravers, printers, etc. and in laying out the actual work of production...
...older balloons were hand-fashioned sheets of rubber stock-a laborious task at best. The new balloons are made by a radically new process perfected by the research laboratories ol he Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. and known as the Kaysam Process. By it, virgin latex is cast to give a hollow ten-inch ball of rubber gel, which can then be expanded by air pressure into a four-foot balloon. After drying and curing it is ready...
Those who object to the plan concern themselves largely with practical difficulties, but cannot, apparently, offer any substitute whatsoever. It is true that the makers of schedules must be patient and thoughtful, but the task before them is not Herculean. As for past tradition, it is, after all, largely a matter a venerability and not necessarily of utility. And only a little breadth of imagination is required to forsee a worthy and comprehensive tradition of amateurism in football solidly bolstered by the seven Ivy Colleges...