Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advantage both at home and abroad is that the decimal base of the metric system makes it far easier to perform calculations. More important is the fact that Britain has its eyes on increased exports to Europe. In the past decade, the proportion of Britain's exports going to countries using the metric system, primarily in Europe, has risen from 40% to 50%. Even though the changeover will cost heavy industry, from machine tools to autos, millions in retooling expenses, businessmen were enthusiastic. The Association of British Chambers of Commerce maintained that it was "absolutely delighted...
...elements of mathematics only succeed in confusing her and stifling her enthusiasm. The girl is unable to go beyond simple addition, in spite of the professor's warning that all of life, philosophy and civilization consist in being able to disintegrate as well as integrate. If she can perform other operations (such as a ten-place multiplication problem) faultlessly, it is because she has learned them not by reason but by the same additive process--memorization. By the end of the arithmetic session, both characters are becoming exasperated. More and more, the professors dominates his unhappy pupil...
...Your Essay, "The Other South" [May 7], was long overdue. Your grudging admission that we perform certain functions in conformity with the standards that you sanctimonious people so freely set is appreciated. We think you're improving...
...could find no other major with the Advanced Standing program and noted that slightly fewer than of the advanced standing students the classes of 1958-61 graduated magna cum laude. Academic perform prove that few freshmen accept standing for the "wrong i.e. for prestige or to avoid Education Ahf, lower level Gen requirements, and the physical requirement...
...police spokesman also said that even the Beach Boys may not get a permit to perform in Boston if they are declared to be rock and roll singers. "Some people have claimed that they're folk singers," he remarked. Sinnott later advised the CRIMSON that the Beach Boys' permit had been granted yesterday afternoon because "they have a history of non-violence...