Word: performed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today's match will thus be of great interest to coach Jack Barnaby, since it will provide a measuring stick by which to estimate the way in which the varsity should perform against Princeton and Yale...
...three principals are supported by Peggy Lapsley, Walter Farnham, and Eleanor Mayher, who play loyal believers in the medium's powers. Music Director Bernard E. Kreger has ably welded them into a clear, understandable ensemble, and all three, but particularly Miss Lapsley, perform with distinction...
Such conditions, says Dr. Wilcox, will make men feel strange, and will make it hard for them to perform the intricate jobs expected of them. Continual failures at simple physical tasks are sure to rouse frustrations. Emotional conflicts and irrational hatred will tear the crew into factions just when it should be working as smoothly as a perfectly tooled machine...
...Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers should perform their own wild dances. The climax is as grim and subtle as is proper to a race which could take its whisky along with the hard Knox of predestination. In the end, the reader will have learned something of the manners of nearly extinct fighting tribesmen-and the almost equally...
...perform its duties with entire independence," said the London Times in 1852, "the press can enter into no close or binding alliances with the statesmen of the day. The duty of the journalist is the same as that of the historian-to seek out the truth, above all things, and to present to his readers not such things as statecraft would wish them to know but the truth as near as he can attain it." While U.S. and British newspapers today have more readers than ever in history, many observers on both sides of the Atlantic share a mounting conviction...