Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wisdom to revolt against our friends. . . . What did you ever get from these gentlemen who are now inciting you against the President's program? I'll tell you what you got. . . . You got destitution and the road to ruin. . . . If instead of making the President's task harder by misunderstanding, you continue to give him your patience and your support, he will lick this ghastly farm disparity...
...though, to be sure, the General might feel that his end of the recovery program is way ahead of all the others anyway and he can afford to take a rest and wait for the others to catch up. Certainly the approval of about 100 codes is a monumental task to have finished since July and if the controversial phases such as labor and wage rate adjustments were to be put to one side and an examination made of the many constructive things that have been inserted in the codes relating to business discipline and voluntary cooperation of business groups...
...Bigger and Better Defeats." Only a political miracle can save the party from collapse if it breaks down before the issue once more; only a series of unexpectedly crude tactics by the Conservatives will shock the Labourites into a realization of the immensity and the necessity of their real task. And by that time it may be too late. CASTOR...
...dubious instruction daily forced down their unwilling throats, but when left to themselves they are sure to attend movies containing a plentiful supply of gangsters, gin, illicit love, and shots of Miss Ginger Rogers disrobing. Even should some enterprising teacher take her pupils to a genuinely amusing cinema, the task of discussing it would undoubtedly provide some embarrassing problems. Consider, for example, a class of tenth or ninth graders toying with the moral implications of "Reunion in Vienna...
...kept a clear head, and brought to the task requisite powers. That man was John Dos Passos, and he, believes Mr. Hicks, has pointed the way to the New Literature. He has seen the kaleidoscope of American life, and has reduced it to terms of the class struggle. He has built the building, and it remains for the coming generation only to refine upon it. The book ends with a note of optimism, and a challenge to youth to carry out the Great Tradition by recognizing the reality of the Revolution. One cannot help feeling that, despite his idea fixe...