Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haiti; in which event, one important difference should recommend itself to the Government: The occupying force should consist of Negro soldiers and Negro officers, instead of brutal, arrogant, prejudiced white Marines. Intelligent Negro officers are available on the reserve list, and they could bring to their task of ending slavery a sympathy and a tact that were conspicuously missing in the American occupation of Haiti...
...held over The Solent; nor would it allow Royal Air Force planes and pilots (the winners in 1929) to take part. Reason: The event does not justify spending the required $400,000 in these hard times. Result: The Aero Club and the civil aircraft industry face the whole task of raising the funds and building three racing planes-a task which observers last week deemed impossible...
...Haiti; in which event, one important difference would recommend itself to the Government: The occupying force should consist of Negro soldiers and Negro officers, instead of brutal, arrogant, prejudiced white Marines. Intelligent Negro officers are available on the reserve list, and they could bring to their task of ending slavery a sympathy and a tact that were conspicuously missing in the American occupation of Haiti...
...examination, even under ideal conditions, is a task no less trying than it is necessary. But when adverse atmospheric conditions are added to the mental difficulties of such a problem the burden becomes unduly heavy...
...with the endeavors to smooth the transition from preparatory schools to colleges. It is not unfair to say that the former should receive the greater emphasis because a wrong step taken at the beginning of a business or professional career is often irremediable. To prevent such mistakes is the task of the graduate advisers. They are in no sense to be considered employment agencies, but they can render signal service by informing the young engineers of the conditions that govern both the practical features of the profession, and the geographical territories in which they wish to practice...