Word: task
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter from one Frederick Paul, farmer, of Stemmers, Md. Wrote he: "We saw a piece in the Baltimore News saying the Turkish Government is asking your association to help them get rid of wild hogs infesting the country. So my father and I have proposed to undertake such a task. Get in touch with us. . . . P.S. We are individual, just father and son. We also will clean up the hogs in six weeks. My father is social, but when wild hogs go fooling around him he knows how to kill them. Our weapons are shotguns. His motto...
Perhaps the task of self-effacement is made easier by the fact that the lion's share of the play goes to her husband. Mr. Lunt is the "Meteor", the egoistic genius who, in his spurt of overwhelming success, ruins the lives of all about him. Never has he given a more powerful performance, never displayed so artistically, his uncanny instinct for attack and transition. A long speech in his hands never becomes boring. Each new thought that forms in the character's head is projected definitely by changes in his voice, in his body, and his face...
...taking the task of providing employment aid and advice to graduating seniors out of the hands of the Student Employment Office, the service has taken a forward step. In an organization already occupied to its fullest capacity with the problem of supplying part-time and summer employment to the self-supporting undergraduate there is little time and energy left to devote to seniors. The new service leaves the advisers with free hands...
Several suggestions have been brought forward. The idea of a university club has been rejected as unfeasible and inadequate to the task of reuniting the two groups. The proposal of building exclusively for student activities met better reception, but there was danger that it might fall in its purpose through lack of patronage, since the powerful Triangle club has removed to quarters of its own. The proposed university center is planned to combine the best features of both, in that, as the seat of activities, it will not tend to be left to the nonclubmen alone...
Those who have attempted to follow Boston censorship through the intricate maze of reasoning which decides the fate of cultural efforts in the City across the Charles find it a difficult task to justify the logic of its latest pronunclamentos. The injustice of the "Strange Interlude" debacle and the growing list of banned books, as burlesque shows and arty magazines proceed unmolested, is almost as inexplicable as the astounding quiescence which greets the presence of Bertrand Russell in Boston...