Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very able freshman, whom I have known from childhood, has been laboring diligently on theme writing. There are times when he would forego a week's spending money to be rid of his weekly task of writing an English A theme. The youth has been doing exceedingly well in his other courses, but his marks on English A themes have not matched his other course grades. Partly to encourage him and partly to save him the long night hours, which 1, as a freshman theme writer spent grudgingly and fruitlessly, I have tried to help him. At first our united...
...manifest that we are confronted with the task of first construing 'and/or,' that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to express his precise meaning, or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to furthering the interest of their clients. We have ever observed the 'thing' in statutes, in the opinions...
Since 1918 he has been perpetual President. Last week to a solemn gathering of Czechoslovakian statesmen the frail and hoary but still mentally great President said: "I am aware that I am no longer strong enough for the task. Therefore, I resign. ... I recommend to you Dr. Benes as my successor. . . . You, Mr. Premier, I ask to take cognizance of my resignation and undertake the necessary steps...
...modern times, claimed Dr. Temple, the tasks of the Church are well defined. "Its main task is to be itself, that is, to be a fellowship of those who worship God in Christ. Since worship means the submission of the whole being to the object of worship and since ordinary methods are inadequate, true worship can only be attained through groups as stimulated in churches...
...Church must also act as an agent of mercy, thus expressing on earth the Infinite Love of God, and as a final task, it should bring to the hearts of men spiritual redemption and all expression of the Love...