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Word: performable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great success with them, he says. He credits Harvard's long tradition of Faculty control. That tradition is so strong here, that Faculty members--if not deliriously happy to be tapped for committee membership, do at least recognize it as a part of their functions here, and perform, when asked, with dedication and competence...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: If in Doubt, Create a Faculty Committee | 6/13/1968 | See Source »

FATHER: "Now before you say a word I just want to remind you that there's still a good place waiting for you at the B&M family business. It's nothing fancy, but doughnuts perform a vital...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 6/12/1968 | See Source »

...Time, a year later; place, the stage of Manhattan's City Center. Beverly is about to perform her ninth audition for the New York City Opera. While waiting, she regales her colleagues with the bittersweet aria, I Only Lasted One Day in Frankfurt, and explains that because she found it a gloomy, unfriendly place, she returned to New York without having stepped foot on the Frankfurt stage. The audition now begins. Beverly walks to the front of the stage and sings Sempre Libera from La Traviata. Applause is heard from the pit, and it is obvious that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Il Destino di Bubbles: The Libretto of a Success Story | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...athletics you're judged strictly on how you perform." Ron Winfield, the captain of the fencing team, said. But for most blacks at Harvard, graduation will mark the end of participation in organized athletics...

Author: By John C. Merriam, | Title: Harvard's Black Athletes Discuss Sports, Race, and Their Future | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...Kappa at the University of Texas. After getting his M.D. degree at Johns Hopkins University, he stayed on as an intern and resident at the Hopkins' University Hospitals and served as what he calls "a very junior assistant" to the great surgeon Alfred Blalock, who was soon to perform the world's first blue-baby operations. That association determined Cooley's future course, and he has been a heart man ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Hearts of Texas | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

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