Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime, and then try their best to get them rated as legitimate noncombatant groups under the Selective Service Act. Nearly all these sects feel that the regular noncombatant work under Army direction is so close to actual participation in the war that sincere objectors will find it impossible to perform. Naturally the government makes every effort to persuade an objector to get into the Medical or Quartermaster Corps, bathing and laundry, map-making, forestry, or veterinary services. There he would be in the Army, wear its uniform, and take military orders. Until the President designates some private civilian organizations...
...interpreted, the statement is a denial of an essential principle which a university cannot renounce if it is to perform its proper function in our American society. For it is the special function of a university to supply the community with men who can think deeply and clearly because they are detached from the conduct of affairs and are members of a fellowship in which hard thinking and fearless statement of one's convictions are especially prized. The graver the national emergency, the greater the need for honest and courageous thinking about national problems...
...dreamy description of three restless roustabouts who cut many a lusty caper in the Great Southwest during the '70s. One is a down-at-the-heel ex-West Pointer (Fred MacMurray), one a sharpshooting, mustachioed Mexicano (Gilbert Roland), one a leather-faced old pug (Albert Dekker). Together they perform the most prodigious cinema escapades since the wall-scaling, sword-swishing days of Douglas Fairbanks-escaping from a firing squad, terrorizing a small frontier village in Texas, erasing a horde of badmen who murdered the grandfather of a hardy little moppet (Betty Brewer) whom they chivalrously adopt...
Working to secure American preparedness, over 600 members of the Harvard community have united under Ralph Barton Perry, professor of Philosophy, to form the Harvard Group of American Defense. In a report issued yesterday Professor Perry reviewed the work the twelve committees have performed and will perform...
Osteopaths are allowed unlimited practice in 16 States, are allowed to perform major surgery in 34 States, eleven of which require special examinations or internships...