Word: performable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freight trains going through Arkansas must perform an odd ritual. At the border, the train stops and picks up one or two additional crewmen. The men remain aboard, working with the regular crew while the train traverses the state; they are dropped off as it crosses the border...
...said he is rarely nervous before a game. "There was a lot of psychological pressure in the Princeton game, though," he added. The show was televised, and Tuckwiller's friends at the University of West Virginia saw him perform in stop-action...
While a university patterned after Mill's ideal could not possibly perform this task, the contemporary university does perform it masterfully. Approximately 75 per cent of the research budget of the university derives from federal contracts, and as Mr. Kerr notes, "Expenditures have been largely restricted to the physical and biomedical sciences, and to engineering, with only 3 per cent for the social sciences and hardly any support for the humanities." But this distribution is defended on the grounds that it represents the national interest and the flow of money after "the most exciting new ideas...
...align itself in public with humanity. Today, the university is required to condemn the government of the United States for its barbaric crusade against the life and spirit of the people of Vietnam. A university that will not speak for man, whatever tasks it continues to perform, has ceased to be a human enterprise...
...this ground, school officials placed 74 students on probation for their "forcible obstruction" of a Dow Chemical Company recruiter on campus (TIME, Nov. 3). Probation means that the students must attend all classes, cannot hold office in campus organizations or perform in a dramatic or musical production or compete in intercollegiate athletics...