Word: task
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attempting to produce Dunsany's "Fame and the Poet", the Dramatic Club set for itself a difficult task. Brilliant as the dialogue is, the play is distinctly of the "closet" type--designed especially to be read. Consequently, the "atmosphere" of the piece is a most elusive thing and extremely difficult to get across the footlights. That the performance almost succeeded in doing this is a matter for no little praise. In fact, the effort was such an admirable one, and there is so much to commend, that a would-be critic hesitates to mention any of the faults--we have...
...offered to undergraduates as specified above, one of which is for a translation in Greek and the other in Latin. The subject for the Greek of the passage in J. B. Bury's "History of Greece," Chapter 12, Section 1, beginning with "Sparta had achieved the task," and ending with "from a friend of Lacedaemon...
...that it does not depend on any assumptions hitherto unheard of. The only two constants that are used are the now well recognized ones of Newton's Law of Gravitation and the velocity of light. It has, therefore, a firm foundation and skeptical scientists will have no easy task in their attempt to undermine...
...comment on the selection of Casey the Post considers that he should be nearly unanimously chosen for a backfield position on the team. Continuing on this theme, the Post says: "Under the hottest kind of fire Casey broke through for Harvard and performed his appointed task. It was the mighty Eddie Casey who saved the Crimson from defeat. He is one man whose fame will outlast the fame of other 1919 All-American selections...
...speaking of the task before the class committees, T. Nelson Perkins, the district chairman, said...