Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They want and need men who can lecture to them interestingly and impart their subject matter with skill and clarity. A certain amount of research is necessary in order to keep the subject living and progressive, and there should of course, be men to take care of this important task of imparting this material as it is gathered. if men are expected to do worthwhile research and at the same time develop interesting courses, one phase of their work is going to suffer for want of time to do both. Some men come Harvard for the sole purpose of doing...
...they are attempting, though with decreasing success, to stifle the manifestations of struggle against this terror on the part of the German tolling masses. At the same time they are busily sending their representatives throughout the world, making their alliances for future wars, and attempting the not too difficult task of convincing the capitalists of the rest of the world not to fear the protests of the liberals, but unhesitatingly to use Nazi methods to achieve Nazi ends. The Nazi party is, in short, a party of paid and shameless thugs, employed by German capital to use the ultimate means...
...veterans' problem from a cold statistical viewpoint, but quite something else to know intimately the history of hundreds of cases affected by regulations issued under this law and to observe the wholesale injustices worked thereby. Special Review boards which considered the presumptive cases would have had a light task had they been concerned only with ''injuries not even remotely connected with...
Less obviously acted than most mystery movies, "Murder in Trinidad" manages to baffle until nearly the end. To discover a ring of diamond, smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting...
...reading is good. Unfortunately, the exception is the textbook used in the course, Hockett. A great deal of the evil of having a poor textbook is, however, removed by the thoroughness of Professor Merk's lectures. With this one exception, History 5a accomplishes in very commendable fashion its task of racing through the nation's history...