Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite need, however, and opportunity for making the position an influential one. Directing as he does the selection of future students the Chairman should have opportunity to raise the standards of admission as he feels such changes necessary. He well may take much of the responsibility in the task of selecting desirable men for the new scholarships proposed by President Conant. This is something which calls for keen judgment and ability to analyze high school men which the Chairman must certainly possess. Possible revision of the College Boards and their use in determining the fitness of men to enter college...
...will gather that England, peace-loving England, has been quite some time at the task of building up this organization She has. The firm began in 1829. Slowly, throughout the nineteenth century, the firm grew, changed it name, cast its outworn skins, grew fat, prosperous, and highly multicellular through the acquisition of this forpedo works, of that heavy ordnance factory. And then there came along Mr.Basilelos Zachavias...
Attempting a very difficult task, Fitzgerald has acquitted himself admirably. The contrast of the building up of Nicole after a bad start and the disintegration of Dick whose early start had been phenomenal is skillfully balanced and interestingly developed. "Tender is the Night" is well written, full of action, and true to life
...Common Task, When Yankee Methodists in 1844 sought to oust Bishop James Osgood Andrew as a slave-owner. Southerners objected that under Methodist law that was no ground. The two branches shortly parted. Fortnight ago in the episcopal address delivered by Rt. Rev. John M. Moore of Dallas, representing the mind of the Southern Church's 14 living bishops, one passage read: "We cherish the hope that at some time we shall be wise enough to find a way whereby a united Methodist may with undivided energies and unwasted resources deliver her full strength upon the common task...
...Chicago, not the law, which made the man poor by driving him away from his pile, which made him infirm by hounding him rather crudely in half a dozen European courts. The search for legal evidence of his guilt as an embezzler seems to have been a difficult task, but it was done at the insistence of the Chicago citizenry...