Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scottish physicist, Lancelot Whyte, 51, who was chairman and managing director of Power Jets, Ltd. from 1936 to 1941. With Frank Whittle, inventor of gas turbine jet propulsion, he shared in the development of jet propulsion. Whyte is a scientist who believes that science has a social duty to perform...
...three seniors finally selected will be the only students taking the rostrum in the commencement program. The class orator, poet, and similar officers perform on class...
...future nights during the matches, other college bands, among them Dartmouth's, will perform. Last night's appearance was arranged through the Harvard Club of Lowell...
...Daily Herald: "The case of the cardboard-soled business executive is very moving. Did he, we wonder, try to touch Miss Young for a taxi fare? . . . If she is aware of the achievements of our nation in industrial output . . . she must surely realize that a tired people . . . could scarcely perform such feats." The Daily Mirror was avuncular: "Miss Young . . . has a kind heart. . . . The contrast between Hollywood opulence and our own modest state may have made the film star ultrasensitive...
While it is unfair to condemn the Placement Service because it may not perform its work at some future date, a general expansion of its activities could increase its efficiency today, and guarantee it against the threat of the future. Information now on file in the Registrar's Office, the Office of Student Testing, and Hygiene Department, if collected and kept on file in the Placement Office, would enable the job counselor to have before him at once the medical, educational, social and economic background of any student seeking aid. At the same time, close contact with firms ready...