Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian prelates have not. Last week Most Rev. Evasio Colli, Bishop of Parma and head of the Central Bureau of Catholic Action, asked its members to pray God "so that He may bless our dear country and protect the sons of Italy who are fighting bravely. . . . Every one must perform with perfect discipline the duty assigned...
Today the Lahey Clinic occupies a large, four-story brick building, is staffed by 56 doctors, who perform some 7,500 operations a year in all fields except obstetrics and ophthalmology. An excellent general surgeon, Dr. Lahey has colored movies taken of his operations, shows them at medical meetings all over...
...hero. As a psychologist he has the failing of sometimes being taken in by his subjects. Skilled though he is as a craftsman, Author Cozzens still shows a sophomoric taste for elaborate ironies and facetious quotations from the Oxford Book of English Verse. Result: Cozzens, who continues to perform as if he might some day write a really good novel, is still a quite good entertainment...
What made the German Army perform as it did was primarily a matter of its leaders' brains and its nation's morale, secondarily a matter of weapons. In 1870, 1914 and, according to battlefield evidence, 1940, French Army leadership, canopied by a great weight of professional autocracy, was smothered by routine thought, opposition to change. The French Army's ranks were filled by democrats who did not like to think of war until they had to, were prone to dodge conscription, soldier through their training period...
...Minister of Labor would "direct any person to perform any service required'' and be "able to prescribe terms of remuneration, hours of labor and conditions of service." Under this provision plans were laid to send thousands of unemployed Britons, who have never in their lives mined coal, to the pits. In addition, some 65,000 women in Northwest Britain were to become munitions workers. The latter would be billeted in nearby homes, housewives mobilized to cook for them...