Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick Button, twice Olympic figure skating champion, has signed with the Ice Capades of 1953 to perform the skating twists that won him five world titles. He begins his professional career in Madison Square Gardon on September 11, the day that men from A to L in the first year law class are slated to register...
...long as they stick to such spendthrift habits, concluded Pinay, France should not expect the government to perform price-cutting miracles. "Ever since Henry IV,* all governments have broken their teeth on this problem [of prices]. The only solution would be an abundance of goods and the restoration of free competition. But things are not that simple, because the customer does not know how to defend himself. On the contrary, he favors high prices...
Dick Button, twice Olympic figure skating champion, has signed with the Ice Capades of 1953 to perform the skating twists that won him five world titles. He begins his professional career in Madison Square Gardon on September 11, the day that men from A to L in the first year law class are slated to register...
Standouts in the first release: Master Pianist Artur Schnabel (who died last year) playing two important Mozart concertos, the portentous D Minor, K. 466 and the C Minor, K. 491, with strength and tenderness; Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, making the Vienna Philharmonic perform with the best in Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Schubert's Unfinished and Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor; Violinist Yehudi Menuhin at his dazzling peak in Paganini's popular, pyrotechnical Concerto...
...S.P.C.A.'s Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston. After dispatching a total of twelve burly and belligerent New England lobsters, the doctor came to the conclusion that they were capable of pain. With a sharp, clinical eye, he noted that shortly before death "the tail is seen to perform small fitlike movements" and that it curls tightly when the lobster finally cashes in its chips. This did not mean, however, that "our humane friends" could not enjoy lobster meat without "those disturbing thoughts" which may have inhibited them in the past...