Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 80 of his thousands of X-rayed spores germinated with enlarged, disk-shaped* chloroplasts. Since this abnormality has persisted for almost ten years in his ferns, Knudson concludes that the chloroplasts of useful plants may also be enlarged for good, increasing their ability to perform the chemical reaction on which agriculture, and all life, is based...
...disregard all former ideas of a proper amount of 'free time' to give any Government agency. The Treasury is perhaps incapable of being 'popular' in the frivolous sense, but it must have 'popular' support in the wider sense....Radio will perform a real service if it applies its showmanship ingenuity lavishly to these ends...
...Hutson, the scamper end, who has turned in the most brilliant perform ance in pro football. He not only holds practically every pass-receiving record in the National Football League, but has this season set a new record for points scored: twelve touchdowns (ten on passes), 20 points after touchdown and one field goal for a total of 95 points. The only pro ever to catch three touch down passes in each of four games, his football record has begun to take on the glamor of baseball's Babe Ruth's. In seven seasons, Hutson has scored...
...estimated that the Jews' share of the German income and aggregate wealth "was four times that of the Jewish population ratio. . . . Today there are no Jewish business enterprises in Germany, no Jewish lawyers, craftsmen, actors or musicians. . . . With the exception of the manual labor which they perform upon a virtually slave basis, the Jews have been completely eliminated from the economic life of greater Germany...
Elsewhere, Torsoists Grable and Mature perform agreeably, under a tight directorial rein. Miss Grable does not, as one enthusiastic studio publicist put it, "overcome the handicap of possessing one of the finest figures in the nation," but she is pleasantly subdued, works hard, neither sings nor dances. Mr. Mature, who occasionally slips his diction and looks as if he needs more sleep, is every inch the matinee idol (height, six-foot-two-and-a-half; weight, 198 Ib.; chest, 45 in.; waist, 33 in.). Says he: "Sometimes I can't see what the girls...