Word: performance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton has but one good swimmer, Bob Gibbon, who swims the 100-yard freestyle and possibly either the 220 or 440-yard freestyles. He has done the 100 in 53.7, which is about the same time that Koni Ulbrich and Tom Cochran perform. Diver Al Routh is also a threat to defeat the Crimson's Greg Stone...
...days now takes only one. Top brass are not the only gainers. Salesmen cover more ground, land more contracts; engineers and troubleshooting supervisors can move around faster. Beyond ordinary personnel transport, private planes are invaluable to rush delivery of critical orders, speed repair parts to outlying plants, or perform any other task where time is the vital factor...
...negotiating with the Russians: "You never could tell what Molotov wanted or what he believed. He is one of the pig-headedest men that ever I've come in contact with, and whenever I wanted him to perform, I called Stalin up and told him what I'd like to have done. Then Molotov would do it ... Stalin at Potsdam made a very agreeable impression on me. He was easy enough to get along with and he was -it was easy enough to make agreement with him. Of course, I didn't know at that time...
...office in the Pentagon last week a group of high-level Navy and Air Force officers got together to ponder a serious decision: whether the U.S. ought, in the age of the missile, to speed up a nuclear-powered airplane project, and, if so, what kind of plane, to perform what kind of mission, at what cost, and when. The Navy argued hard for a subsonic nuclear turboprop seaplane for antisubmarine warfare and long-range radar-warning patrol. The Air Force argued not quite so hard for a more advanced supersonic nuclear jet bomber. All believed that the Russians might...
...high place that Abraham made the everlasting covenant of his people with the Lord and received God's instructions to revive the ancient Canaanite rite of circumcision as a token of participation in that covenant. And it was also to a mountain that Abraham went, ready to perform the act that still stands as a supreme symbol of human faithfulness to God's command-the sacrifice of Isaac, his only...