Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...savings teller who accepts our deposits and enters them in our passbooks. To others, he may be the bookkeeper who prepares the statements of our checking accounts and mails them to us. Each of these people plays an integral part in a bank. But the functions which they perform represent only a small part of the entire role which a bank plays for the business community. A bank performs many functions, affecting our everyday life, which we, perhaps, take too much for granted. The food which we eat would not get to our table without banks. A bank may well...
...methods used by Lt. Anderson were not commendable. He deserved to be reprimanded for hanging one trainee by his ankles and making others perform silly or exhausting tasks. But none of the men were injured, and at the end of the two-weeks period the company had begun to resemble an actual fighting force. Thousands of American men would be alive today had their company commander whipped them into a fighting machine instead of worrying about their ice-cream letters from home and U.S.O. shows. Part of his undeserved trouble can be blamed on the recently adopted Uniform Code...
With a cultured snort at reports that he would soon perform in a Las Vegas pleasure dome for $35,000 a week, British Playwright Noel Coward, in the U.S. ostensibly to browse around Broadway, showed a bittersweet regard for the prospect of such easy money: "I keep on getting offers, and what I am offered is often trebled by the press, which gives me a lovely false feeling of prosperity." But Las Vegas nonetheless holds a certain attraction for Coward, who has long lived opulently by his wits: "They do pay the most extraordinary kind of money...
...must be remembered," Watkins continued, "that the members of the Select Committee were practically drafted for the job, and, so far as I am concerned, it was the most unpleasant task I have ever had to perform in all my public life. I am asking my colleagues: What are you-and you-and you-going to do about...
...competition for the vacancies will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, when the executives of the organization will perform their last official duties before taking over the alumni publication. They will explain the workings of the paper's four boards and outline the eight-week training period...