Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willard of the W. C. T. U. had once been caught with a half-burned cigaret (TIME, Oct. 5). Mr. Thomas revealed that a group of workmen on the campus conspired to plant a lighted cigaret in Miss Willard's room as a joke. They drew lots; the task of placing the cigaret fell to Letter Writer Thomas' father, Philip...
Bertrand Russell is still at his priestlike task. Not only bright but steadfast, he surveys civilization with a calm and rationalistic eye, preaches to an increasing congregation the virtues of Reason. Russell's lucidity has rarely faltered, but of late years his published sermons have seemed at times a little thin. Now he admits his recent books were "mainly pot-boilers"; but says of The Scientific Outlook: "For my part, though I says it as shouldn't, I think it is a very good book." Its purpose: "To show up all the scientists who talk about religion...
Guests of an Andover team that has staged an imposing 39-0 victory over new Hampton Academy; the Harvard Freshman football team faces a difficult task in overcoming its prep school rivals in the first game of the year, to be played at 2 o'clock today...
Hotel prestige is a fickle thing; to maintain it is difficult. The backers of the new Waldorf-Astoria have undertaken an even more difficult task, that of recreating in the new hotel all the grandeur and glory of the old semi-national institution at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, qualities which had begun to fade long before the building's demolition...
Candidates for the photographic department are required to take and develop photographs of college subjects with CRIMSON cameras, a task calling for initiative and skill...