Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denouement of a crabbed jest when he wrote: ''I owe nothing to the president, professors and tutors of Harvard College in office from 1810 to 1814." Of larger interest was a note from Samuel Atkins Eliot, later Harvard's treasurer, apologizing for delay in some Bicentenary task because his 2-year-old son was seriously ill. Said James Bryant Conant: "It was lucky for Harvard that this baby recovered, for his name was Charles William Eliot." At this mention of the man under whose celebrated 40-year (1869-1909) administration Harvard blossomed into a great University...
...again, and now Old Ironpants is back in the regular lineup, and a star at that. I guess his trouble was, the first time in the league, that he was putting in long hours trying to save the country on the side and didn't realize that either task is a full-time job in itself...
...himself ebbed, his service in Ireland, Palestine, his return to his command in France. A simple, moving book, it has little in common with most War literature in its dry ironic tone, its study of Sassoon's effort to free his mind of doubt and concentrate on the task of making himself a good officer for his men. Written with a matter-of-fact detachment, it occasionally rises to rhetorical heights, as when Sassoon describes the mental hospital, where the shell-shocked patients were cheerful and normal curing the days. But at night "they lost control and the hospital...
...brief space of less than a week Coach McDonald faces the overwhelming task of patching a lineup from 60 entirely unfamiliar faces and pairs of feet...
...right tackle hole is still a problem, with the solution hotly contested by a trio of Al Kevorkian, Mike Adlis and Ken Booth. To Hartman Schmidt has been allotted the thankless task of subbing for Captain Gaffney, a job which he has been ably performing...