Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second aspect of Brooks House is its executive work, which consists of committees to manage each of the three above-mentioned activities and to perform several added services. The Social Service, Speakers, and Undergraduate Faculty Committees devote themselves primarily to rounding up and assigning their volunteers. They also study problems of community service by means of reports and discussions...
Watching the new weapons perform last week, remembering that new U.S. tanks carry equally heavy guns and are well armored to boot, civilians asked: why not fight tanks with tanks? Answers: The "destroyers" use standard guns and truck chassis which are easier and cheaper to make than tanks. In some spots they can run rings around lumbering tank formations can be equally effective against enemy troops, truck convoys, fortifications...
...faster loading and unloading. A transport coordinator (with fangs) could force such a move, as well as quicker routing which inter-railroad competition now prevents. He could also free the present freight-car supply from wasteful short-hauls and from way-freight services that trucks could perform more efficiently...
...wanted no more of the old style of maneuver, in which the U.S.'s undermanned, underarmed Army had to pretend that one man with a flag was a tank. He also insisted on "free" maneuver-i.e., battle exercises in which commanders get a job to do, perform it the way they want...
...Germany has the kind of leadership she wants. So have we (God help us). England had the kind she wanted in Chamberlain and now she has what she wants in Churchill. The people, not the times, are pregnant and produce their man. The times simply perform the male function...