Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentiment of undergraduates is of importance in this matter, the committee can perform a valuable service by devising a system that will provide needed counsel for the student without robbing him of the maturity and ability to make decisions that come from his current responsibility for his own destiny at Harvard...
...main difference between the Captain Midnight and Superman shows is that the Captain can't "leap tall buildings at a single bound," or perform any of Superman's other specialties. His scope of activities is thereby diminished, along with the quality of his antagonists. The villains may still be mad geniuses, but they don't pitch planets around. Some of them do threaten mankind, although on a lesser scale, of course...
Torbie Macdonald, whose running and passing had made him the 1938 Varsity standout, was only able to perform in three games of the '39 season because of a badly sprained right ankle. Novacaine injections which failed to carry Macdonald through the Penn game, aggravated his foot...
...dream of a continuous mechanical miner-one that will perform the slow, costly and dangerous operations still necessary in even the most mechanized mines -is not new. Since war's end at least six companies have secretly developed models. Joy Manufacturing Co. actually went so far as to announce the results of a private test of one (TIME, April 5). But Sunnyhill's mechanical mole-the "Colmol"-was the first to back up its claims with a public demonstration...
...most famous bells in the college are rarely heard these days. The seventeen-bell Russian carillon, or zvon, which hangs in the tower of Lowell House was the gift of Charles R. Crane. It was brought from the USSR in 1931, accompanied by a carillon expert who started to perform immediately. Since the architects who designed Lowell House had not counted on a zvon, the seventeen iron lungs shook and reverberated through the new structure so much that the residents, now known as Bellboys, erupted into the courtyard, banging pots and pans every time the expert let go. The musician...