Word: performs
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...respectable diploma"; 3.) a setup by which financial aid to the needy student is administered by an agency designated by the college president and trustees. He deprecated the attacks on college football, adding that "the temptation to suggest that some of these gentlemen who would reform us might perform a far better service by examining their own affairs is almost too great to resist...
...added: "I don't imply that God is any metaphysical demon hiding behind the nearest cloud, waiting to clutch at me and lift me over the crossbar ... I mean psychological influence, which He exerts over all those who can search their souls and find there the strength to perform wonderful things...
...never expect the U.S.S.R. to be a capitalist democracy like the U.S., but that the West could live in peace with a Russia which would: 1) lift the Iron Curtain, 2) give up "the ancient game of imperialist expansion and oppression." Kennan suffers from no illusion that he can perform any solo miracles in his new job. Wrote he as Mr. X : "The foreign representative cannot hope that his words will make any impression on [ the Russian leaders] . . . Facts speak louder than words to the ears of the Kremlin; and words carry the greatest weight when they have the ring...
British gun designers turned to a much smaller weapon: a .276-cal. automatic rifle with a light slug and a relatively low, 2,300-ft.-per-second muzzle velocity. U.S. experts who saw the British .276-cal. perform at Ft. Benning, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 20) call it a "pipsqueak" weapon. They do not like the .276-cal.'s high, telescope-like sight: it could snap off in battle, become useless in foggy or muddy terrain...
...Very Hairy Ride. If the enemy launched an all-out attack against U.N. troops and supply centers, how would allied antiaircraft perform? Probably not too well, at first. Reported TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Dwight Martin: "There are indications that some of the Red equipment is better than ours. Also, the first days of any Red attempt to knock us out of the air war would probably see our AA. come off a poor second to theirs, because our crews just haven't had the practice...