Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emotion, that a child of the people should have returned to the People's Army," cried Radio Warsaw. "He has returned to his native city where he was brought up, to the Poniatowski Bridge which he helped build in 1913, to the Polish working class with whom he undertook his first fighting steps and with whom he shared a prison cell...
...Chandler Thomas' job to tell you about all the news in music: the rise of an attractive new jazz singer like Mindy Carson (TIME, Aug. 1); an account of the monumental recording task which Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska undertook in her 70th year (TIME, June 20); the controversial case of Composer Arnold Schoenberg (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). This week the news is the Sadler's Wells Ballet company, the impact it has had on New York and will have on all the cities on its tour...
...Baltimore chemical firm. After his return, he was playing tennis one day with a Harvard friend when the head of the Lawn Tennis Club asked him if he thought he could make some improvements on the deteriorated courts. Enright said he didn't think he could. But he undertook the job and shortly after, in 1887, the captain of the football team, an end named Cumnock, requested Enright's elevation to the post of grounds superintendent. Enright still can't figure out what they had against the man he succeeded...
Then the job of contacting workers at the various college began. Here at Harvard, Jeremy C. Ulin '49 and Lawrence F. O'Donnell '49, a former CRIMSON editor, now at the Harvard Law School, undertook the tedious chore of enlisting Harvard sympathies for a Boston election. Partly because of the cosmopolitan group here and more because of an apathy even among the Boston residents, the work was slow. Now, O'Donnell reports, there is more interest in Hynes here, but there is still lots of room for anyone who wants to join the group. At Radcliffe, Linda Cabot...
Last week, 64 years after he arrived in the U.S. from his native Germany and 44 years after he undertook his first public office (as a New York State assemblyman), 72 year-old Senator Robert F. Wagner said his farewell to politics. The famed old liberal, long disabled by the infirmities of age, wrote: "My turn has come to step down ... I have had my fair share of shining hours when the country approved my labors and when I saw the reforms for which I struggled so firmly established that many took them for granted...