Word: entrusted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fine plays, like all fine art, are produced only with care and deliberation-expensive commodities. Able playwrights will not entrust their plays to financially insecure managers. But financially secure managers acquire fine plays, which in turn attract fine actors, directors...
...Under Harding no good prohibitor would trust the task to Harry Micajah Daugherty's Department of Justice. President Hoover now favors the change, and his rejection of his close friend William J. Donovan as Attorney-General seemed prompted, aside from alleged politico-religious considerations,* by his desire to entrust future enforcement in the Department of Justice to a personal and constitutional...
...Assembly further resolved to entrust the Council with the task of appointing a Preparatory Committee, composed of five persons possessing a wide knowledge of international practice, legal precedents, and scientific data relating to the questions mentioned above. This committee met in Geneva, February 6 to 15, 1928, and prepared a "Schedule of Points", which was circulated to various governments with requests for information on the points listed...
...entrust you with the Prime Ministry...
...abnormal psychology is not to be wondered at. An American university is a coolbed of conservatism. It is not the breeding-ground for cultural and political revolutions as it is in Europe. Our professors are by nature prudent, our students docile. This pleases American parents who, when they entrust their progeny to others demand intellectual safety first and last. At Harvard the last symptom of vigorous eruptive life ceased with the death of the Medfacs. In such an atmosphere any new venture must steel itself to criticism. If a Radcliffe student suffers from morbid depression and a copy of McDougall...