Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, in proper language. But he has no right to impugn the motives of individual Senators responsible for official action, nor to reflect upon their personal character for what official action they took. If the rules and procedures were otherwise, no Senator could have freedom of action to perform his assigned committee duties. If a Senator must first give consideration to whether an official action can be wantonly impugned by a colleague as having been motivated by a lack of the very qualities and capacities every Senator is presumed to have, the processes of the Senate will be destroyed...
Solemnly holding a copy of the only Bible ever approved by an American Congress,* dapper, dark-haired Lawrence Quincy Mumford, 50, last week swore to perform faithfully one of the most arduous bookkeeping jobs the world has to offer. As the new Librarian of Congress (appointed last April by President Eisenhower), Mumford will preside over the world's largest storehouse of the written word-31,692,000 pieces, including 9,000,000 books, 13 million manuscripts and 412,000 records...
...fell to Brother Ned (T. E.) to perform the deeds that brought fame to the family name. Ned was fond of literature, music and machinery, but his chief passion was archaeology-a bent that led him slowly but steadily through the ruined castles and abbeys of Britain and France to the "diggings" of Mesopotamia and the Arabian desert...
...familiar figure in international literary circles-an intellectual nomad to whom "all the world is home." But last week Author Lin was packing up his books and belongings to return to the Far East. He not only has an important new post to fill but a mission to perform. As the first chancellor of Singapore's new Nanyang (South Seas) University, he will be in a position to strike a blow at Red China's campaign for the minds of Asia's non-Communist students...
...stationary power tools to do half a dozen different jobs. Magma Engineering's versatile Shopsmith tool is a complete home workshop, with drill, lathe, saw and sander all rolled into one. Price: $269.50. But the real tinkerer who plans to do extensive woodworking likes to buy tools to perform each task separately and he generally has enough to outfit a small factory...