Word: performs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little land. Of its 1,000,000 arable acres, 300,000 are in sugar cane, the cash crop. That leaves less than half an acre of land per person for other crops and food production, and much of this land is eroded and exhausted. Unless Puerto Rico can perform a near-miracle of lifting itself by its own economic bootstraps, the problem of feeding the island will surely grow worse. With one of the world's highest birth rates (31.3 v. 24.4 per 1,000 in the U.S.), Puerto Rico's people are increasing at the rate...
...Council can perform a great service in the next few years if it would supplement this report by another, much more restricted report, outlining a specific program for preserving the advantages associated with tutorial. The aims of this program would be to enable students to develop working relationships with individual faculty members, and to encourage and guide independent work. Such a program would probably lean heavily on the Houses, which seem to be the only units small enough to deal with men out of the herd...
...Feeney was deprived of the right "to perform any priestly function including preaching and teaching of religion" by a decree of Archbishop Richard J. Cushing issued on Monday...
Rounding out the afternoon's program will be a group from Buster Crabbe's Aquaparade currently appearing at the Boston Arena and three water ballet teams from Smith, Wellesley, and Wheaton. These teams will perform separately, though not competitively...
...Leonard Feeney, S. J., for four years instructor and spiritual director at the Center, was also deprived of the right "to perform any priestly function, including preaching and teaching of religion" under the Archbishop's decree...