Word: undertook
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...TIME undertook to print all the true tales of U.S. heroism now being released for the first time, it could not do justice to the weekly news. All honor to the men of the Escort Carrier Guadalcanal, the Destroyer Escorts Chatelain, Pope, Pillsbury, Flaherty and Jenks, and to Composite Squadron 8, for their unique achievement...
Violation of Faith. ". . . The above activities of the Argentine Government . . . are direct violations of the commitments that Argentina assumed when she signed the final acts of the Mexico City conference. She undertook to ... permit free access to news ... to support democracy and foster justice and freedom...
Last week War Production Board's chairman, Julius Albert Krug, undertook in an official report to answer these questions. "Cap" Krug's picture of the job ahead...
...throw-back to the days of "Ben-Hur," "Sign of the Cross" is a mammoth in the tradition of the twenties, when producers undertook to carry out such colossal, stupendous ideas as filming the Bible. It demonstrates the obvious fact that sensuous revels cannot be mixed with martyrs to produce sincere religious inspiration, and it proves that the genuine fervor of the Passion Play cannot be transferred to the screen...
Many a U.S. college and university has taught the fundamentals of international law, diplomacy and foreign trade. And until the State Department stopped giving examinations for the Foreign Service in September 1941 (it will start again after the war), there were several Washington cram schools which undertook to stuff candidates with the right answers. But until S.A.I.S. set up shop, in a remodeled brick office building on Washington's Florida Avenue, there was no U.S. school of postgraduate calibre which undertook: 1) to give prospective diplomats and foreign traders highly individualized, up-to-the-minute training for specific jobs...