Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of the Interior Ickes: Why Mr. Ickes for the engineering task of remaking much of the face of the country? . . . Nothing in all of Mr. Ickes' honest lawyer's life remotely suggested that he could do such a job-and he didn't do it. It was folly to expect him to do it. ... The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers . . . might not have done the job either, but at least it had an engineer's chance to do it and Mr. Ickes didn't have a Chinaman's. Either...
Handed the thankless task of replacing Douglas Fairbanks in D'Artagnan's floppy boots, Actor Walter Abel, in his Hollywood debut, seems a trifle more nervous than a swashbuckler should be. This is due less to his own shortcomings than to the curiosities of the story. Investigating the means whereby the Queen of France (Rosamond Pinchot) retrieves a brooch injudiciously entrusted to an English admirer, it reveals D'Artagnan as an incompetent young cavalier whose headlong efforts to combat an international intrigue are successful only because the villainess treats him with uncalled for generosity and because Athos...
They only want to relieve football of an unfair responsibility which leads to undesirable evils. Harvard is in no position to accomplish this task alone. Princeton and Yale must meet this situation unflinchingly and take constructive action, such as Harvard's new endowment policy...
...pleasing to us, however, to see that the Crimson is taking notice of the Tercentenary as it concerns the undergraduate, for without the aid of Crimson publicity it would be a terrible task for us to get into line the great mass of undergraduates for any active participation. We hope that we can work together with the Crimson and the Student Council in giving the undergraduates some really notable part in the Three Hundredth Anniversary Celebration...
...imported singers are so sure of their Wagner that they needed little rehearsing. But the San Franciscans who sing the smaller roles have been drilled tirelessly all autumn. More difficult still has been the task of training an orchestra which has never before played the Ring. Five players had to be brought on from Manhattan, four to play the special Wagner tuben, one the drums. To start the spadework a month ago, Conductor Artur Bodanzky sent two of his assistants from the Metropolitan Opera. For the past fortnight he has been on the job in person, rehearsing as much...