Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed, however, that the dual authority could endure, that more than one national labor organization could permanently survive. So last week both sides prepared for the task of destroying each other. The A. F. of L. sent out orders that all C.I.O. sympathizers in A. F. of L. unions should be expelled. The A. F. of L.'s Structural Iron Workers Association was authorized to organize steel fabricating plants in competition with the C.I.O.'s steel drive. Plans were announced for A. F. of L. membership drives in the cement, aluminum, food and filling station businesses...
Exactly the same applies to the vice-president. His office has hardly more meaning than a diploma on the wall. In the case of the third officer an exception is possible; his task of transcribing the proceedings of the cabinet meetings and in general assisting his two colleagues accords with the significance of the position. In the last analysis the president must make his own job. And in consideration of the many associations he forms with settlement houses and men outside the University, in view of his supervisory capacity over the functions of the various committees--which involves more contacts...
...said, "a vital growing civilization cannot be achieved. . . . Only by merging the cultural streams of many groups and concentrating our attention on our common past, brief as it has been, can the ground work be laid for a significant civilization. To me this is the great cultural and intellectual task of the coming generation...
...runs. This helped swell Australia's first innings score to 604. England, which had won the first two matches at Brisbane and Sydney and lost the next two at Melbourne and Adelaide, had made only 239 runs in its first innings. It was now faced with the task of getting at least 365 runs in the second to make it necessary for Australia to bat again. England's best batter, W. H. Hammond, could make no more than 56 runs before he was caught out by Bradman. Next morning with two wickets left to fall, Australia...
...difficult subject. Seeing its merit proved, men interested in the esthetic side of music and would-be Freshman concentrators will be attracted next fall but repulsed at once because of the cut. One Professor and assistant to handle 125 men, let alone the present number of 300 is a task impossible to accomplish if any teaching standard is to be kept. Aside from Music 1, there is an insufficient amount of courses for concentrators and graduate students, so much has the staff been curtailed...