Word: performed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sodality is now planning a concert to be given on March 8 at Sanders Theater, which will be built around the two contest winners. Miss Steiner and Lubow will probably perform the piece which each played last night...
...state capitals, 531 Constitution-ordained members of the Electoral College gathered to perform a patently superfluous rite, their sworn duty to re-elect (457-74) Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon to the nation's highest offices. In Alabama, however, one elector chose to ignore the vote that sent him to college, wrote in for President, instead of Adlai Stevenson, the name of Alabama's states-rightist Judge Walter B. Jones. Thus history books will forever record the 1956 election results as: Eisenhower, 457; Stevenson, 73; Jones...
...Soviet stooges. Seven weeks after the revolution broke out, there was still no effective government in Hungary, and throughout the country, especially outside Budapest, the revolution-born workers' councils were reaching out more and more for the local government functions that the Kadar regime was unable to perform...
...most successful rendition of the afternoon was given Walter Piston's Symphony No. 2. It is not an easy work to perform, and there were some decidedly rough spots, but the general spirit was strong, and for much of the time the Orchestra's tone was surprisingly good. Piston's mastery of orchestral effect was in evidence throughout the Symphony, and some of the brass writing is unsurpassed anywhere. The first movement is a highpoint in modern music, with widely contrasting themes of great drive and of great beauty. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, despite some fine playing in this work...
...billion business by 1965. But so far, railroads have puffed off with most of the profits. Of 39 roads offering some form of piggyback service, only seven do business with common-carrier highway truckers; all the rest have set up their own piggyback truck lines, perform every service themselves...