Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After testing 280 Air Force recruits, Johns Hopkins psychologists advised draft boards not to "judge a book by the cover": men with trembling hands often perform better under pressure than those who turn up for induction placidly composed...
Died. Dr. Alfred Worcester, 96, Harvard's oldest graduate ('78), surgeon, teacher and writer; of a heart attack; in Waltham, Mass. One of the first in New England to perform an appendectomy and Caesarean section, Worcester went back to Harvard as professor of hygiene (1925-35), authored many papers and books on nursing, sex hygiene and geriatrics, set up Waltham's hospital and nursing school...
...Black Eyes. One day, the sight of an old trophy he had won for diving gave Father Simon an idea. He would organize a water-sports festival. As the main attraction he would perform a really spectacular high dive...
...doctors suggests a way to find out: 1) put a congenital deaf-mute (who has never had a normal sense of balance) in a diving suit; 2) submerge him until the buoyancy of water exactly balances gravity; 3) then give him "tasks of visual orientation" to perform...
With an eye fixed hopefully on collectors, Columbia Records is pressing a series in which composers perform their own works. Stars of the first releases in Meet the Composer: Igor Stravinsky and Francis Poulenc...