Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the courts have determined that certain types of workers should be paid from the time they enter the company gates, they have fulfilled the only function which they are physically equipped to perform efficiently. The amount of portal-to-portal pay in individual industries should be left to the parties concerned--labor and management--to be threshed out around the conference table and made a part of future contracts...
Every musician who remained in Germany or occupied Europe to perform there must face before all other charges that of being a leader, looked up to by his listeners, a leader who proved unworthy of the esteem placed in him. To overlook the past records of such men simply because one likes to hear their music is unforgivable...
...proposed constitution will be distributed with the ballots. The final form of the bill itself "represents" according to Weld, "a compromise between schools of thought among the committee members themselves. Some wanted the Council to be entirely an executive board for student affairs, others wanted it to perform purely legislative functions. The form now before the College represents a balance between these schools of thought...
...result of the stoppage, the rice ration in New Delhi was cut from twelve to eight ounces. In New Delhi 100,000 children were out of school because of a teachers' strike (87% of Indians are illiterate). In southwestern India even the aboriginal Warli tribesmen refused to perform farm work, tried to chase landlords off the land...
...Lester Samuels, chief surgeon of a Veterans Administration hospital in Louisiana, had flown to New York City (by special permission of President Truman, to whom the patient had appealed) to perform this emergency operation. (He had halted an attack, three years ago, by cutting her left phrenic nerve.) The cutting stops uncontrollable hiccups by disconnecting the diaphragm from nervous impulses that cause its convulsions...