Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everyone recognizes that the trucks perform a vital role in our economy," said A.A.A. President Ralph Thomas, "but the time has come for a proper and adequate determination of the share of highway building costs that should be borne by the principal beneficiaries . . . The passenger car owner is called upon to pay more than his just share of highway costs ... If highways did not have to be built to carry the heavy truck, but only to ... carry the automobile, we could build tens of thousands more miles of improved highways than we are building today with the same amount...
...Orthodox Jews of the Diaspora have often hired non-Jews (goyim) to perform household tasks that are forbidden on the Sabbath (shabbos...
...them if they used it." Echoed the principal of a Champaign (Ill.) junior high school: "We shall some day accept the thought that it is just as illogical to assume that every boy must be able to read as it is that each one must be able to perform on a violin, that it is no more reasonable to require that each girl shall spell well than it is that each one shall bake a good cherry...
...Budapest café, she was warned it might get her into trouble as too Western. Another long-frustrated ambition of Nora's: to see a Fred Astaire film. Just ahead should be plenty of chances. Manhattan Impresario Sol Hurok dropped in one day, watched Nora and Istvan perform on an empty stage, and signed them up on the spot for an early U.S. tour...
...Paris, after seeing Rousseau's house, they discussed his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men. In London, where they were scheduled to see the Old Vic perform Hamlet, they found that the Old Vic had just closed for the month. They "did" Hamlet anyway in their hotel, and somewhere along the line squeezed in Canterbury Cathedral and a lecture on Chaucer. Finally, last week, they groggily got ready to come home. What had they learned? "Tell you the truth," said one traveler, "you get so that you see everything in half a daze...