Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program of that department. Prospective Freshmen should be asked to indicate that field in which they have a particular interest, and advisors should be assigned on the basis of this tentative preference. Such a system provides a group of men who are fitted by temperament, experience, and interest to perform the task of guidance...
...teaching them to see the world in the light of science. We cannot do this while the Church makes them believe in God. We must tell them that God is a myth, a word, a grotesque thing." The Deputies agreed, voted unanimously to petition President Abelardo Rodriguez to perform the expulsion of such of Mexico's eight archbishops and 25 bishops as have remained in the country since the persecutions of recent years...
There is no place in the modern world for a church which clings resolutely to a point of view so typically medieval. Indeed, the current experience in Russia proves conclusively that unless the church does perform a definitely progressive function in contemporary society, its continued existence is extremely precarious. When the bishops of one of the leading American sects fail to appreciate the moral fortitude which has characterized the attitude of the people during the last five tragic years, when they allow Hollywood and Reno to blind them to the beneficial social legislation which has been written...
...procedure in the early stage of the child's pregnancy, until the district attorney would guarantee that the abortionist would not be prosecuted for an operation which in Colorado is a crime. This the district attorney refused to guarantee, pointing out that doctors have the indisputable right to perform an abortion to preserve the life or health of a prospective mother. But Dr. Jaffa would take no chances. He and the district attorney threw the case into the reluctant lap of Denver's Juvenile Judge Stanley H. Johnson. Judge Johnson discreetly hired two impeccable Denver physicians to advise...
...which hold annual rodeos. Most famed are Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede, Fort Worth Rodeo, the Cowboys' Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like riding '"outlaw" horses and roping cattle, were tests of cowboys' ability to perform their chores. Spectacular frills arrived later. A Negro cowboy named Bill Pickett introduced steer-wrestling some 25 years ago, dared his confrères to copy it. In addition to freakish specialties like milking wild cows, last week's world series rodeo included also a mounted basketball game, in which a team...