overtasking

And he said Canada will continue to lose valuable, experienced soldiers because it doesn't offer them overseas missions, instead overtasking them with training and teaching jobs that keep them away from their families without giving them the adventure they crave.

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Facial pallor or feverish flushes are both evidences of overtasking, and either hints that fatigue has already begun.

Civics and Health William H. Allen

The problem with which educators are chiefly concerned is that of fully employing the energies without overtasking them.

The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

The excitement of his feelings, which, while it acted as a stimulus, sustained him, had passed away, and the ordinary consequences of overtasking nature followed.

The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

And if this overtasking the mind is so injurious to the body, what will our women of the next generation be if things go on with us as they are doing at present?

True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson

Pennsylvania legislature, when from overtasking my eyes, and other causes, I became blind.

Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

Such an overtasking of the child's strength has not hitherto been an element in your calculation, and it shall not become one.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

These young ladies themselves are overtasking their constitutions which

True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson

No doubt it is difficult to be patient where there is no time; and what with our contemporary overtasking, there is no time.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

According to him, our first care should be to inure the _soul_ to pain and hardship; he who aspired to educate men aright must reckon with soul as well as body, with the age of his pupils, and with their previous training; he would then escape the palpable blunder of overtasking them.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895