Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those huts was being used as a hospital by Swedish missionaries,* and in it at the time of the raid was a U. S. Negro aviator from Chicago, John Robinson, known to correspondents as "The Brown Condor of Ethiopia." Condor Robinson's task was to ferry dispatches from Addis Ababa to provincial Ethiopian commanders in an ancient monoplane. Back in Addis Ababa last week he was able to give foreign correspondents an accurate description of the first casualties of the war. Said...
...make the practice more realistic the punting was done "under pressure," in the hope that the kickers would get used to being annoyed while at their task. In general the practice was an improvement over Tuesday...
...substituting for battle "a creeping paralysis produced by an intangible ubiquity." Lawrence's unorthodox maneuvers gave the tribes the type of activity for which they were best fitted. He and Feisal succeeded in delaying, blocking, obstructing Turkish action without experiencing serious losses, keeping Turkish attention focussed on the task of maintaining supplies and communications intact. And all the while the Arab revolt was gaining momentum...
Under the urge of a chance adventure, and driven by pride and hunger, I found a task and dreamed a dream which held me all the days of my boyhood, and now occupies my every working hour, and will never be fulfilled even though I live the 80 and odd years that have been foretold...
...heartening, thunderous word. "We are determined not to allow cubists, futurists and others of the sort to participate in the new cultural life of Germany!" roared the man who once wanted to be an artist and ended a house painter. "Dadaists, futurists and impressionists forget that the task of Art is not to promote degeneracy but to fight degeneracy. Those who affect the primitive style are either swindlers or maniacs...