Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of his speech in which he announced that, after seven years of toil, the India Report was ready (see col. 2). His Majesty said with visible emotion: "I pray that both your Houses, upon whom now rests the responsibility for deciding these issues, may approach the task before them with the single aim of furthering the well-being of my Empire...
...wage recently decreed throughout Mexico of 1¼ pesos (42?) per day. Of this sum the National Revolutionary Party is proud, considering that peons by the million have long grubbed for less. To enforce even a 42? minimum will be for President Cárdenas a hero's task...
...determine the nature of the galactic system in which the solar system is a minute part, Dr. Eric M. Lindsay and Dr. Freeman D. Miller '30, of the Harvard Observatory, have been counting stars at the rate of 5,000 each day and have now completed almost half their task of classifying the estimated 10,000,000 stars of the thirteenth magnitude and above. The whole project is under the direction of Bartholomeus J. Bok, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
When Hollywood abandons the accepted form in introducing characters, and leaves to the spectator the task of unravolling identities, critics should not be lenient nor can they be held responsible. Especially is this true when the production is adapted from your sister's childhood favorite, "Anne of Green Gables." Is Anne Shirley, Anne Shirley, or is she Shirley Temple, or Temple Bailey, or ditto? Is Merilla, Merilla, or is she Murilla, or Marilla, Marella, Merella, ditto? Is Gilbert Blythe, Gilbert Blythe, or Blithe, or Bliyth or ditto...
...toughest decisions of his career Justice Carew had no one to help him make up his mind because he alone had heard all the evidence with impartiality. But the doughty Justice felt equal to the task. When an East Side mother turned up with 300 signatures to "An Humble Appeal to Give This Mother to Her Child" he barked: "If she brings it to me I'll make her eat it with catsup...