Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Dr. Herman Louis Kretschmer of Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "There seems to be a prevailing notion that ... all that is necessary to effect a cure is to perform an orchiectomy [castration]. It is extremely unfortunate. . . . Results are . . . anything but desirable...
...uses more radio equipment than was manufactured for the entire nation in peacetime. The Signal Corps, which operates it, has more men than Napoleon's whole force at Waterloo. Aside from radar, electronics is one of the most versatile developments of World War II. In industry, electronic tubes perform such diversified jobs as shutting off the air in a Bessemer furnace when the molten steel reaches exactly the right white-hot brilliance, tempering shell casings to toughen them, examining all sorts of materials for hidden flaws...
...foreign ministers of the various countries. Together the two Houses of Parliament would elect a federal executive of seven members, each of whom would be in charge of a special department: foreign affairs, army, finance, commerce, interior, justice and transport. The annually changing chairman of the executive body would perform the functions of President of the United States of Europe...
...personal maid, whom it summons either by name or by making a noise like a buzzer. A noisily temperamental showoff, it breakfasts on hard-boiled egg yolks and orange juice, later polishes off a raw carrot and a slice of banana mixed with mockingbird seed. Good performances mean good meals of grapes. But this diet has to be regulated, because Raffles sometimes gets grape-happy and will not perform at all. Raffles sleeps in a nest of hot-water bottles. Being a tropical bird, it could not live otherwise...
...invoke its new authority to cripple a recalcitrant union. At the Johnsville, Pa. plant of Brewster Aeronautical Corp., 4,000 workers walked out. Reason; four plant guards, members of both Coast Guard Reserve and the C.I.O. Auto Workers Union, were arrested by the Coast Guard for failure to perform their duties...