Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the academic year the daily physical work of a student consists, on the average, of walking a few blocks, pushing a pen across paper for several hours, and, in times of emergency, turning the pages of a book. To supply the small amount of energy needed to perform that work they have been stuffing their faces with tremendous quantities of food and drink. The result has been an appalling growth of the girth-rate. At present there is so much excess weight on the typical Harvard frame that if all the men in the College were laid...
...request of the Army and Navy, the Defense Service Committee has obtained over 100 entertainers from its own files of entertainment volunteers and from the University Employment Office to perform at the camps and at Y.M.C.A...
...America and International Student Service. The plan is that the magazine can serve as the clearing house for existing groups studying post-war problems, rather than attempting to build up such groups from scratch. In this way duplication of existing work can be avoided and the magazine can perform a function that is not being done...
...affecting enzyme reactions, not-as hitherto suspected-by acting as fat solvents; human consciousness, which these drugs affect, is at least partly a chemical process sustained by enzymes.) The sulfa drugs acted like one group of narcotics on the enzyme, putting activities to sleep. (Conclusion: the sulfa drugs may perform their germicidal miracles by preferentially anesthetizing disease bacteria so that they are easily overpowered by the body's natural defenses.) When most narcotics had stopped bacterial luminescence, compression of the solution restored the glow. But pressure will not restore luminescence blacked out by sulfa compounds, chloral hydrate ("knockout drops...
...acting. Shirley Temple is by no means awkward, as her age implies. She now has a pleasing voice and smile, nicely self-contained manner, and a better acting technique than many of her adult Hollywood confreres. In Kathleen she seems obviously embarrassed at the inanities she is asked to perform...