Word: undertook
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This fall the faculty undertook its own study of the incident and its aftermath, setting up a small investigatory committee...
Over the next ten years, he undertook the quixotic journey that would make him famous, under a new name and an altered identity. The first step was to tell his appalled parents that he wanted to be a writer; the next was to become one. That proved harder. He took a cheap room in London and spent hours each day at his typewriter, tapping out the kind of story that began "Inside the park, the crocuses were out . . ." At night, he began "tramping," haunting the slums, occasionally taking a bed in lodginghouses for the destitute, hoping that his Etonian accent...
Almost immediately, as shocked U.S. and French troops undertook the task of finding the dead and wounded, the casualty figures began to soar. The first reports said that at least 40 Marines had been killed, then 57; by noon Sunday the Pentagon put the toll at 120 dead and 45 injured?and still rising. Said Lieut. Colonel Thomas Jones, a Pentagon spokesman: "There are extensive casualties. It changes on a minute-by-minute basis." Before Sunday, six Marines had been killed in Lebanon by sniper fire or artillery explosions in the Beirut airport vicinity, and a seventh had died when...
...most successful accomplishments at HGSE has been the evolution of the Principal's Center. Inaugurated in 1981 under the leadership of Dr. Roland Barth, the Principals' Center undertook to recruit members in the Boston area and to organize a set of activities that would be useful to school administrators, especially principals, and would be within the resources of all concerned. During its second year the Principals' Center reached a membership of over 500, a unique involvement of the Boston school personnel with either Harvard or with other school administrators...
...present public outery about the schools has focused upon teachers, stressing their academic inadequacies. Beginning in July 1982, we undertook to investigate ways of attracting nontraditional candidates--persons in their middle years who have had experience in technical fields but who have not previously considered teaching, who had mastered their subject matter and were academically strong--to the teaching profession. The fields that seemed to us then as the leading ones for such an undertaking were mathematics and science. Events of the last twelve months have confirmed our original view. Dr. Katherine Merseth has been instrumental in organizing HGSE...