Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flicker, Prime requisite of a heavyweight champion is that he be a superfighter. To prove that he is still the superfighter that boxing experts considered him until Max Schmeling gave him a workman- like beating last June, was the task that confronted Detroit's coffee-colored, 22-year-old Joe Louis. More specifically, Louis' job last week was to knock out Boston's 33-year-old Jack Sharkey, now back in the ring, after two years' retirement, to secure additional working capital for his none too prosperous Boston barroom...
...drive home the facts and their inexorable consequences to the people requires organization. . . . That organization has been entrusted to Mr. Hamilton. He has already demonstrated his abilities in this great task. I take pride in introducing...
Added General Metaxas: "I will act with the King for the benefit of the People. . . . Any resistance to the Government's task of Hellenic Renaissance will be immediately repressed. . . . My aim is discipline...
...relate these minutiae of contemporary experience to the broad sweep of historical developments has been the task, for the past ten years, of a novelist named John Roderigo Dos Passes. Last week Author Dos Passos, 40, offered readers a novel called The Big Money* that stood midway between history and fiction, the last of a series of three books that constitute a private, unofficial history of the U. S. from...
...Stong but almost as much sweetness & light as Lloyd Douglas (Green Light)-that he promised, in short, to be another J. B. Priestley. In A Horse in Arizona the gusto was still there but the sweetness & light were noticeably lacking. Author Paul had taken a vacation from his Priestleyan task and had written a rollicking, rough-&-tumble satire...