Word: thanklessness
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...design of Harvard Stadium, which has practically half of its seating capacity in the deep bowls behind the end zones, is one undeniable reason why the H.A.A.'s task of alloting seats is such a thankless one. But the confusion, the disappointment, the hard feelings, that accompanied distribution of seats for last fall's football games stemmed in part from archaic methods and inefficiency within the H.A.A. itself. Investigations conducted by the Student Council and the Crimson disclosed that students were annoyed by the reselling of turned-in tickets in the cheering section to non-University purchasers, and by lack...
...thankless task which the Supreme Court had wished on Judge Picard. He had first heard the Mt. Clemens case in 1943. Then it was a simple suit, brought by the pottery company's employees, to collect overtime pay for time worked before the whistle blew. Judge Picard had ruled in favor of the employees, but was reversed on a technicality. Then the case reached the Supreme...
Dese, Dose & Firetraps. Dr. Jansen, as head, of the nation's biggest public school system (800 schools, 34,000 teachers, 890,000 pupils) will have one of education's most thankless jobs. There are fine things about the New York system (including excellent technical high schools, special classes for handicapped youngsters). But most parents who can afford it send their kids to private schools, and many others wish they could find the money...
Assigned the razor's-edge task of filming a story that was blatantly unsuitable for a big, star-spangled screen entertainment, Director Edmund Goulding (Grand Hotel, Claudia) did his thankless work with considerable taste and polish...
Seattle's loud, husky Lewis Schwellenbach chucked a lifetime job as Federal Judge in May 1945 for a traditionally thankless job as U.S. Secretary of Labor. Almost everybody in Washington wondered why. By last week even Lew Schwellenbach had run out of answers...