Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Fascist coup d'état, but bandaged and prostrate Léon Blum was not worrying about that. To a question popped at him over the sheets last week he answered eagerly, "After the elections, with the approval of my party, I should willingly undertake the task of forming a Cabinet...
...However it is no easy task to direct the affairs of a mighty modern nation. As your late President Theodore Roosevelt used to say. 'it is the batting average that counts.' This point has been lost sight of by the radical officers...
...achievement on his earth so far" and that "the theatre is essentially a cathedral of the spirit" and whatever one's opinion of these postulates may be, it must be admitted that they are noble concepts. In predicating his "Winterset" upon these premises Mr. Anderson has set himself a task of heroic proportions. He has attempted to build a play of fundamentally modern themes and modern personages upon the foundation of epic structure and to articulate these characters through the trying medium of verse. To an extent he has succeeded and "Winterset" is clearly among the most compelling and powerful...
Crippled by the loss of "Dixie" Howell, star forward, Coach Adolph Samborski is faced with the almost impossible task of effectively bridging the gap before his Freshman hoopmen clash with a powerful Holy Cross five this afternoon...
...such a task one world expect a hand-picked body of experienced instructors, but as far as any competent system of selection is concerned, the names of the Adviser might just as well be pulled out of a hat. The man chosen as a Vice-Presidential candidate in a smoke-filled hotel bedroom has more qualifications for his office than these men. Only one example out of many is the student who, having decided to concentrate in English, went for advice to his Adviser, an amiable young Frenchman with the best if intentions. But as for advising him in English...