Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unwieldy, badly organized independent Maritime Commission, "the most serious obstacle standing in the way of the development of the merchant marine." It proposed dropping the five maritime commissioners in favor of a Maritime Administrator of sub-Cabinet rank, under the Secretary of Commerce, with a Maritime Board to perform the present agency's legislative and judicial functions. The committee also recommended 1) continuation of operating subsidies and training programs; 2) a program to revive the nation's coastwise and intercoastal shipping, through surplus ship sales and the elimination of discriminatory rail rates...
Blundering, misinformed, and poorly organized, the Student Council muffed an excellent change to perform a really important function. Europe's need for food filled is desperate and there is no earthly reason why Harvard cannot contribute both grain and money. The problem demanded speed and keen insight; the Council treated it in a sluggish and obtuse fashion. Last year's Council committee raised $25,000 for European relief in two quick door-to-door drives. As of today, the two groups are exactly $25,000 apart...
...Yale offenses were obtained by extensive scouting since the start of the season. Wayne Johnson, graduate student and backfield star of the 1942 eleven, has seen most of the Eli games, while Lamar, Harry Jacunski, and Chief Boston have watched the Bulldogs perform off and on this fall...
Since they became the Dunces, the group has sung at every Dunster House dance, and they will perform at Dunster festivities after the Brown football game tonight. At times, too much liquor intake put an edge on their voices, but fame, like intoxication, spread, and the Dunces were invited to Eliot House's "Pink Elephant" dance...
...standard rate for maids is 65 cents per hour. All maids in dormitories and houses work four hours a day for six days a week. Others who perform their duties in "educational buildings" work for varying amounts of time, but never more than eight hours...