Word: performed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director claims that the proposed plan would aid in the purchase of food, since a single agency now does all the buying. This agency seems to perform well enough already, and there is no apparent reason why it should not continue...
...dictatorship" that smothers rather than kindles the spread of Christian music in Asia. Some rebellious young Americans are using the phonograph, Dr. Benz reports, but this "increases the dangerous identification of Christian religion with Western technology." The real need is encouragement of native musicians using native instruments to perform the finest Christian music in their own way. "Freedom fighters must arise," says Dr. Benz, to sweep away the shibboleth that "a hall without a harmonium is a hall, but a hall with a harmonium is a church...
Belafonte was the first Negro to perform in such plush nightspots as the Eden Roc in Miami and the Palmer House in Chicago. He is the only American Negro to be cast in a romantic movie role opposite a white actress (Joan Fontaine in Island in the Sun). He has not only crossed some color lines, but a great many other lines as well. His appeal is remarkably independent of age or sex. In a recent concert in Pittsburgh, he packed the hall with steelworkers. symphony patrons, bobby-soxers and schoolchildren. When he toured Europe last summer for the first...
...three courses in the first year will be in physical science, "designed to put the student in the position of working as a scientist." It will not be a survey, nor will it simply talk "about" science. All students will perform some of the operations of science, "and so acquire experience which can form the basis for a general understanding of scientific method and history...
...both UMT and the 1957 recommendations of the Cordiner committee on higher and more attractive salaries for trained, essential, skilled personnel are expensive items to present to a budget-minded President. UMT, if it were as universal as the British system, would require all fit American males to perform their military obligation for some period immediately after graduation from high school and would also rely on an active reserve establishment designed to guarantee rapid mobilization of trained troops. The Cordiner report, of which some provisions have been adopted, envisioned greater reliance than is presently possible on a stable body...