Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Observatory, known as the Elizabeth E. Bemis Fund, will be used in aiding the survey which is being made of the heavens out to the distance of one hundred million light years under the supervision of Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Observatory. This task is being carried on at the South African Observatory and the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, and was started more than ten years...
...annual smoker will take place on Wednesday, March 28 in the main dining hall of the Union. The job of the committee is to take over the task of arranging for the entertainment, refreshments and souvenirs of the traditional Freshman social affair. Definite plans for the entertainment will be announced at a later date. This is only the third smoker to be held in the Union, the first having been...
...Death Takes A Holiday", adapted for the screen by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman from the famous stage play by Alberto Casella, and presents Frederic March, as a "shadow", Death. For three days, Death takes a holiday from his grim task to task life as a human being, and discover, if he can, what makes life so sweet, and himself, Death, so abhorrent. March, in the disguise of a handsome, adventurous gentleman, appears at a house party and throws himself into the circle of the sophisticated group. To each of the beautiful young women present, March makes love in turn...
...come forward, deleting the most ridiculous of Hurley's assertions, and adding some of his own to make a full roster. As the official who authorized the sorry investigation, Governor Ely must apparently put the best possible face on the matter and see it through. This is no pleasant task. His chair in the executive chamber is of the tall straight variety; the testimony of a sincere man defending his name against abuse is bound to be lengthy and tedious. His desire to expedite matters, to confine argument to the Dillon charges, and to exclude the general public merits sympathy...
...other way, namely finding an increased volume of business by getting some business abroad, permits payment of high wages and hence satisfactory standards of living, and to reach that objective and make the necessary readjustments is the task of the second year of the new deal and perhaps the years thereafter...