Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world. . . . Japanism is a world communism of moral responsibility, ideals, obligations and honor, unlimited by time, unbounded by distance or area and irrespective of race or nationality. . . . No individual has arisen in the 20th century, no nation has achieved the leisure to lead and inspire. . . . Japan can achieve this task...
...Nanking the so-called Chinese Government took no steps to send either the heroic igth or any other Chinese army to recapture Shanhaikwan-an impossible task. "Every Chinese should feel happy and honored to die like the Shanhaikwan heroes," bleated Nanking's Daily News. "Such bravery and heroism is proof that there is hope of a rebirth of the Chinese nation and of Chinese glory...
...People act more wisely when they see the continuity of the whole. This is the service rendered by any report on social trends. Hence the tremendous importance of the committee's conclusion that "we have conquered nature: now we must take up the more intricate and delicate task of adjusting human relationships...
...true that the bill puts a great deal of power into the hands of the Secretary of Agriculture, who is charged with the task of price indices and with their distribution. It is also true that it seeks to raise the prices of farm products to a higher level than is wise in an experiment as yet untested. Finally it may be pointed out that although it is advanced as an emergency measure, its usefulness will terminate with its existence and that its continuation will bring up still further difficulties...
...they make little or no distinction between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, roam the extreme northern wastes of those countries which they call "Lapland." When winter comes adult nomad Lapps have a persistent habit of getting dead drunk for months at a time, leave to their hardy children the task of feeding the reindeer. When two Lapp men fight in earnest-and if they fight at all it is generally in earnest-the victor is apt to make a eunuch of his foe. Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden received an offer of charity to his Lapps from...