Word: performs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Pidgeon showed that, though their sales had doubled in a decade, this enormous turnover brought no enormous wages to salesgirls. Labor is a prime item in chain-store operation. Where customers can readily see the entire stock, make their selections unaided, the cheapest, most inexperienced young clerk can perform the simple task of wrapping bundles, ringing up receipts...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock, the third of the Arthur Whiting series of Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music, will be presented in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Kirkland Street. The artists who are to perform tonight are: Mr. Arthur Whiting, Pianoforte; Mr. Alec Compinsky, Violoncello; and Mr. Manuel Compinsky, Violin...
...interesting to note this contrast: the pay of a captain in the Army is less than $3,000 per year; that of a commander in the navy less than $5,000. The pay authorized for a civilian trio to perform work heretofore handled by these officers, one at a time, totals...
Egyptian Brooders. Although the dynastic Egyptians lacked artificial light with which modern poulterers perform fake sunrises to make their hens lay overtime, they used incubators to hatch out eggs. The old time hatcheries were cone-shaped mud huts heated by burning chaff. An attendant always sat within to warn against temperature too hot or too cold. Of a clutch 95% hatched successfully. William D. Mann, U. S. assistant commercial attache at Cairo, found out about the ancient Egyptian brooders when he was seeking an Egyptian market for the latest type of U. S.-made incubators...
This latest move raises the hope that perhaps in the near future Harvard may increase the salaries of her Faculty as well, and that eventually those men who perform one of the highest functions of society may be justly rewarded for their efforts...