Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housewife to one editor, I am writing to tell you that it is utterly impossible and unbelievable for one woman to perform the exhausting schedule you have reported: Mrs. Nixon does most of the housework and laundry in her $41,000 home, she does half the cooking and all the marketing for a family of four, she plays handywoman, she answers on the average 200 letters a week, she attends luncheons and bazaars, and to top it all off, she goes to formal dinner parties most evenings ... Oh! She travels...
...furtherance of all the many aspects of anthropological research and scholarship. The activities of the University's Department of Anthropology, of course, centre about the Museum--it is an invaluable aid both to teaching and to student research. In fact, most of the Department's faculty members perform a dual function--they hold appointments as curators of the various departments of the Museum as well as professorships of anthropology. The Museum itself, at present, has three endowed professorial chairs...
...announced that $750,000 had been contributed to this fund. More has come in since, bringing the total closer now to the mark of the first million. But the matter cannot be permitted to rest there, for the full sum is needed if this school is to perform the high and important service which President Conant so rightly envisioned...
...coach's main problem," says Wilson, "is to keep the men interested enough in their events to put in the work which is necessary to perform well." From the record of his team, he has gone a long way towards solving this problem...
...Sept. 28) are some of the keys to the factory of the future. But it will be a long time before most U.S. industries are generally automatic, their operations run by a whole new group of controls such as "servo-mechanisms," which not only correct their own errors but perform a series of logical operations. Machines run by such controls are often fantastically expensive to produce; M.I.T. has developed a servo-controlled milling machine, so flexible that it can make 150 different products, but it costs $400,000. In many industries, the volume of production is too small to make...