Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irving Trust Co. faced its funny new task with equanimity last week, announced that the magazine would continue publication under its present board of funnymen, including Drama Critic George Jean Nathan, Bridge Expert Sydney Lenz. With their help Irving Trust hopes to pull Judge out of receivership...
...investigation starting this week will be made by the Banking & Currency Committee, chairmanned by Senator Peter Norbeck, onetime South Dakota well-digger. A stanch believer that short sellers are vicious and their influence destructive, Senator Norbeck went about his new task enthusiastically last week. When asked what effect his inquiry would have on the stock market, he almost yelled...
Engineering schools should frankly recognize this. They should require applicants, as do the law and medical schools, to have at least two years of preliminary college work, and preferably a degree. In this way Massachusetts Institute of Technology would be relieved of the task of orienting men into college methods, a job which obviously does not belong to the professional school. This change would obviate the present necessity of maintaining both a liberal arts and a scientific faculty. The liberal arts faculty which exists primarily to give a semblance of the cultural by its very incompatibility with the spirit...
...discouraging handicaps. If crews are coached by one man and able to maintain a reasonable permanence in their personnel, a valuable esprit de corps will appear. The new plan will not only be conducive to better rowing but will also be an essential factor in the House Plan's task of making athletics more agreeable and more easily accessible for all undergraduates...
...Shaw's Dramatic Task," Professor J. T. Murray Harvard...