Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will have to sit at once, in effect making a minor deliberative body like a third branch of Congress, rather than a court of law. Thus, unless the present executive heat persuades the present elder justices that it's time to retire, the speed at which the court can perform will be retarded rather than advanced...
...commuters the advisers should live in or near the center of Freshman activities, the Yard. Furthermore, the number of proctor-advisers should be increased to fifty, so that there would not be more than twenty advisees assigned to one man. As for those who are willing to perform services of love-among them some excellent professors-they could be used most effectively in those places not covered by the new plan...
...Albright Gallery had nothing of its own to match these in quality there was at least one other public service it could perform. It published an elaborate catalog illustrating each piece with a full-page plate and giving a scholarly introduction to each section of the catalog. These were not prepared by the Buffalo Museum's staff but by leading authorities in the U. S. on each particular field. Orientalist Arthur Upham Pope wrote on Persian bronzes, the Metropolitan's Gisela M. A. Richter covered those of Greece and Rome, Art Dealer Stephan Bourgeois wrote on modern bronzes...
...opposed to War Minister Terauchi did Navy Minister Nagano refuse to back him. His reason, and he was probably right, was that he thought that he and Terauchi would more easily get the present Diet to vote three billion yen ($850,000,000) for the Army & Navy than perform the same feat with a Diet elected by more or less angry Japanese voters who knew the Army had forced dissolution. In Tokyo, however, it is almost impossible for a Cabinet to exist if either or both Army and Navy Ministers do not pull with the Cabinet, and the Hirota Cabinet...
...belief which underlies the entire project is that there will always be a few young men of exceptional promise, but without adequate means of paying for a university education, to whom it is well worth society's while to furnish every opportunity." National scholarships understood in this sense perform the two very essential functions of conserving and developing our intellectual raw material. As soon as additional funds are available, more states will send deserving students. No mean praise is due President Conant for consistently formulating and pursuing a policy of such substantial benefit to the country as a whole...