Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past two years, the present owners of the Herald-Post have been diligent in an attempt to preserve for Louisville and the State of Kentucky this institution. It is a difficult and costly task for a newspaper to fight back to respectability and public acceptance...
Besides turning their attention to Sociology A the college and departmental authorities must consider the division as a whole. The Sociology Department must review its own rapid, uncertain, and undernourished growth and attend to the task of tying up loose ends. Beyond cavail, the college must recognize the growing importance of Sociology. It must discover some way of giving it a more adequate "cut" in departmental allowances, and, if necessary, shear the allotments of departments which have been sliding down the chute of popularity...
...Majesty and withdrew; the Son of Heaven summoned Prince Konoye; the Prince drove from the Imperial Palace to the villa of Saionji; and finally Prince Konoye drove back to the Imperial Palace, where he communicated to the Divine Emperor this startling intimation: "I am unable to accept the task of Premier for I am in great doubt that I could tide the nation over the present crisis...
...Beta Kappa, Dr. Spencer brings to Ethiopia a brilliant record in scholarship and a formidable amount of practical experience. The task before him as adviser to the King of Kings will entail tenuous manipulation of high stakes, and if American war correspondents are right considerable fretting over climate. For Ethiopia nights, Dr. Spencer has purchased a silk hat. Should he be called on, Dr. Spencer could also play the cell in the cool of the evening, since he was an accomplished cellist at Grinnell, as well as an orator and vocalist...
...spite of the obvious righteousness of his task, Senator Black finds the friends of his enemies and the enemies of all right-minded people not only numerous, but well-disciplined and clever. As soon as an inquiry is even mentioned, thousands of indignant telgrams pour into the Senate, and from then on, it is one obstruction after another that the culprits throw across the path of justice. Even polite questionnaires aren't answered, important records are hidden and destroyed, high powered corporation lawyers insist on "constitutional rights", which mean the rights of the rich to keep secret the secrets...