Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more controverted issue was the question of administration: the departments wished to keep full control over all tutorials, leaving the Senior Tutors with little but decanal duties to perform. Worse, it seemed that no one above an assistant professor was willing to fill the new positions. Both problems threatened to kill the program, but the Faculty sidestepped them. Its resolution requires that "Senior Tutors . . . shall be considered to have special responsibilities for working out with the departments the organization of tutorial groups for Sophomores on a residential basis." In an explanatory note, the Faculty affirmed continued centralization of junior...
Details of an attempt by 20 student devil's advocates to perform the Mass on Halloween came to light last week. The plan was prevented when it leaked out to the director of the house system, who ordered all the students involved to report to their house heads periodically on Halloween night...
Last week, as he was sworn in by McGrath, Morris was plainly enthusiastic over his new assignment. He was convinced, he said, that the Attorney General and President would give him "a completely free hand" for "the biggest service I ever had to perform." He added: "My investigations . . . will be nonpolitical . . . Let the chips fall where they may ... I am an inveterate and implacable opponent of ... the spoils system . . . I am ... just as anxious to clear the clouds that may be over any agency because of the misconduct of one or a limited number of employees...
...kind of germanium with fine metal points pressing upon it. "Junction transistors" use both the germanium that has free electrons and germanium that has "holes." Both transistors act like electron tubes; they can turn alternating into direct current, amplify faint currents, generate musical tones, serve as relays; they even perform brilliantly as photoelectric cells, turning light into electricity...
Bestseller at 58. In the meantime, Roosevelt gave Robinson practical help in the form of a $2,000-a-year sinecure with the Customs Bureau. Robinson never quite knew what his duties were, and in 1909, when incoming Taft appointees demanded that he perform them, he resigned. But he was never again reduced to a mean struggle for subsistence. His verse flowed out increasingly in long dramatic poems, such as Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram, written around the Arthurian legends. In time, he won three Pulitzer Prizes (1922, 1925, 1927), lived to see Tristram become such a bestseller in 1927 that...