Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Republican Committeemen were asked to be in Washington Dec. 15 to perform this duty. flf Herbert Hoover is reelected, he will remain the 31st President...
...confreres in the Northwestern backfield (Meenan, Potter, Olson, Rus-sell), big, blond Ernest ("Pugger") Rent-ner affects a nonchalance which some-times discourages Coach Dick Hanley. He lounges about the field at practice, bestirring himself less when he carries the ball than when he has a chance to perform a chore many footballers hate- blocking. After practice, he jumps a high wire fence at one end of the practice field at Evanston, a feat so precarious that Coach Hanley has considered making it impossible by topping the fence with barbed wire. On the field, his number-23 -is blazoned...
...point at issue is whether or not, once this value has been accepted, experiments in conversation will further a man's appreciation of the literature and its underlying culture. If you deny this you must then assert that the French and German tables perform simply a pragmatic function, which is that of making Freshmen able to get around in Europe. In all other senses, Latin is just as much a "living" language as any other. Certainly a lover of Latin can think in Latin, just as a lover of French thinks in that language as he reads his favorite authors...
...first move would stop people from withdrawing money from banks, stop banks from selling bonds to raise cash and so bring the bond market out of chaos. The second move would unlimber the Federal Reserve System so that it could itself perform the work undertaken by National Credit Corp...
Earnest Elmo Calkins, 63, famed advertising expert, retired as president of Calkins & Holden, Inc. ''because I have become so deaf that I cannot properly perform the duties of an advertising agent, the most important of which is contact with clients." Mr. Calkins won the Edward Bok gold medal in 1925 for distinguished personal service in advertising "in recognition of his pioneering efforts in raising the standards both of the planning and execution of advertising." His book, Consumer Engineering: A New Technique for Property, will be published this autumn and in future he will devote more time to writing...