Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult task of brushing aside the veil of popular adulation to portray the man as he really is, H. Gordon Garbedian, a science editor of the New York Times, has essayed in the first published biography of the life of this great mathematical genius. With a sweeping imagination which, although it tends to overdramatize prosaic details, never fails to sustain the reader's interest, the author unfolds an absorbing tale of a courageous fighter whose entire youth was a bitter battle against poverty and racial prejudice...
...Smoker Committee has the task of arranging the program and securing speakers for the huge stag affair held in Memorial Hall in May. Well known figures from the sports world and the stage usually address the class at this event...
...Torah is made of parchment (calf or goat), hand-written by a scribe who must perform his task with the greatest purity of spirit and body, often taking a bath before writing. If anyone drops the Torah during a service, everyone present must fast for one day. Though it may be carefully uncovered, the scroll must not be touched by hand...
...critics' choice for the finest actor on Broadway was very enthusiastic about the research he had to do for his present role. "I spent several months reading every bit of available material I could find on Lincoln," he said, "for I had a very difficult task before me in trying to convince the critics that a Canadian could successfully undertake so American a role...
...more papers (though he denies it). But with total daily circulation of the Hearstpapers down from 5,153,676 in 1936 to 4,368,086 last year (Sunday circulation was up slightly to 6,714,430), the retrenchment of Hearst is almost over and Trustee Shearn's main task for a good many years will be to pay bills, reduce bonded indebtedness and get Hearst's real estate out of hock. Whether he can do that depends on readers, advertisers and creditors. Readers are fickle and advertisers scary, but the banks and newsprint manufacturers who are Hearst...