Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, since regular practice does not begin until after the winter holidays, the task of getting a team into proper condition has always placed an unfair burden on both the coaches and the members of the squad. For the men, it has meant grueling practice five days a week during the reading period and time trials during the examinations. The necessity of concentrating on the varsity squad in preparation for these contests has often prevented the coach from devoting the requisite attention to Freshmen and newcomers. Indeed, the result of the intensive early training has often been to make many...
...surprise to learn that in his last years Moore groomed a young novelist who is a deliberate stylist to write his biography. Moore told Charles Morgan that he wanted his biography to be, not a "tombstone in two volumes," but "a true novel." Mr. Morgan undertook this task, but the withholding from him of an extensive correspondence which Moore had deemed essential for the work, has caused him to abandon his attempt. The "Epitaph on George Moore" contains his explanation and "a distillation" of the materials he had gathered for the work. It is an exceedingly valuable distillation...
...many collections of English proverbs, Compiler William George Smith's is latest, most definitive. His Sisyphean task took him about 25 years, netted him over 10,000 proverbs. Because ill-health downed him before he could ready his book for the press, able Assistant Janet Heseltine supplied the introduction and index. Compiler Smith lists his proverbs alphabetically, dates the earliest published examples, gives illustrative quotations, but is not always able to explain their origins. Since most familiar proverbs need no translation for native English-speakers, few are given...
...head of a foreign nation may seem singular, all feelings of partisanship are lost when one remembers the world-wide role he played, and the example he set. The coming service is not to George of England, but to the man who as King of England performed a difficult task so well that his death became an international loss. In view of this it is to be hoped that by its attendance at the Tuesday morning service the Harvard undergraduate body will take an active part in the national tribute to so great a figure...
...Jeff" Coolidge, despite his staid New England background, qualified for service in the New Deal by his independence in politics, by his vote for Roosevelt in 1932. In the Treasury his job was figuring out the terms on which new loans should be floated, bonds refunded, a highly technical task of gauging the delicate appetite of the money market for Government securities. That he did a good job Washington last week agreed. That he was willing to do it so long, in spite of his naturally conservative leanings, was explained by the fact that he looked upon himself...