Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of the leading manufacturers learning that better working conditions produce contented workers who turn out more and better products. Walter F. Bogner, associate professor of Architecture, has summed up the ideals of many industrial planners when he proposes a single story, fresh air plant where workers will perform their tasks to accompanying strains of soft music and purring hums of moving machinery...
Generals Keitel and Stumpff and Admiral Friedeburg were helping Grand Admiral Donitz perform the formalities of surrender and perpetuate the German myth (see above...
...Iolanthe" must rank high on any Savoyard's list of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Packed with good tunes and breathtaking lyrics, it is also a social satire at times as bitter and biting as the early novels of Evelyn Waugh. In short, "Iolanthe" is as difficult to perform successfully as it is easy to make entertaining...
Reuben Youngdahl, son of a Swedish grocer, took unorthodox risks to perform this transformation. He first plunged the church deeper into debt in order to build in a better part of town. Then he set out after new members. He told his parishioners that he believes that church member ship is a "seven-day-a-week proposition"; if they wanted to belong, they would have to keep busy. They do-in thirteen women's and social clubs, four youth groups, two missionary societies, a day nursery...
Worrywarts gloomed that the market might not perform as expected, because it seldom has, during the war. For example, when the fall of the Philippines forecast a long, bitter war, the market started up. Reason: the war was bound to bail out many a floundering company. Stocks fell soon after Dday, at the prospect of an early peace, fell again when U.S. troops jumped the Rhine. President Roosevelt's death gave them a lusty boost (TIME, April 23). Perversely, in the fa ce of an end to the German war, they have risen ever since...