Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment of Chauncey Brewster Tinker as next year's Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has captured undergraduate fancy. The search for a man of unusual gifts to occupy this unique position--never an easy task--has ended most happily...
Last week it was the embarrassing task of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency's fourth-generation head to discuss that law in Washington before the Senate committee investigating labor spying and coercion (TIME, Feb. 8). From the agency's instruction book, Committee Chairman La Follette read an item order-ing operatives to submit their bills to Government officials on "plain paper...
...tyros of the Assay Commission divided into three sub-committees to undertake their tasks. Task No. 1 was to count the contents of sample bags and de termine that the Mints had set aside as required for testing one silver coin out of every 2,000 minted.** Task No. 2, under the direction of Assayer Buford, was to assay sample coins taken at random from all denominations and all Mints to determine that they were individually and as a group 900 fine or within a fraction there of. Task No. 3, under the direction of Dr. Holbrook, was to weigh...
...only serious problem encountered in the donation was that of transporation of the mass to Cambridge, an especially difficult task in view of the age, texture, and weight of the specimen...
...discussions of graduate and undergraduate members of the Instrumental Clubs last night showed an intense interest which bodes well for the success of the new officers. Elected amid voicing of universal opinion that the Clubs this year reached a low ebb, these officers are entrusted with the task of reviving enthusiasm. Specific plans are as yet unsettled, but the purposeful attitude of the members who voted down a motion to disband contrasts favorably with last autumn's lethargic rehearsals...