Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...systems of fendalism and chattel slavery which preceded it, has outlived its usefulness to the majority of those who live under it. It therefore behooves this majority to organize both politically and industrially for the purpose of eliminating the old system and building the new. It is to this task that the students of today must turn themselves if it is their desire to do away with war, crime, unemployment, poverty, class conflict, politicians, and the other evil effects of a disintegrating order of society...
...addition to presiding at the Assembly meetings of the tenth Model League next year, Dean will have the task of preparing the agenda, selecting committee chairmen, and supervising local arrangements...
Bishop Müller's first task was to remove from the Sermon on the Mount all reference to Jews, Pharisees, King Solomon, the Ten Commandments, and to fit what was left into Nazi ideology. Examples...
...basic fault lies in the niggardly provision for but two assistants to examine over one hundred fifty men. This task in itself is overwhelming and naturally thankless, and its very enormity precludes any opportunity for personal attention, or the chance to spend either more or less time with certain students. With the outlook for an increased budget for next year extremely slim, the obvious solution is a return to the tried and tested system of hour examinations. These undoubtedly have their faults, but compared to the abject failure which the present system of "personal contact" has proven in History...
...touch with many of Chicago's most influential families, who came to esteem him as highly as he was held among his fellow Jews. In 1932 the Roosevelt boom put him in the Governor's mansion at Springfield. But stocky Governor Horner did not find his task easy. Strictly a good-government man, he supported an Honest Elections Bill which was opposed by old Boss Patrick A. Nash's Democratic machine, vetoed another measure which would have empowered Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly to license race-track handbooks...