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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as science believes that what it explores is absolute (whatever that may mean)," Professor Synge is sure that scientists will be treated as a race of super priests, shut away to perform their rituals. "Only when the human element gains the upper hand . . . can [they] relax into something resembling a grin. If the mysterious face which we glimpse through the darkness is our own, we can no longer pay it the old reverence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Super Priests | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...extensive affairs. Starting at 1:15 p.m. it will lead a parade of dignitaries into the park. For the next half hour it will rende rvarious appropriate selections including "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," and a service medley. The band will also perform its usual squatting alphabetics, which will include "Braves," "cubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Performs in National League Celebration at Braves Field Today | 6/2/1951 | See Source »

...Nuclear Laboratory has a staff of about 40 people which includes researchers, electronics experts and highly skilled maintenance men. Besides their normal duties, the staff must perform as a construction gang when any new apparatus is being built...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Nuclear Laboratory Boasts 100-Ton Doors Water System, 125,000 Volt Cyclotron | 6/2/1951 | See Source »

...Like any true man of the Arctic, he became devoted to his Huskies, in whom he found a "sympathy and tenderness that many humans might envy." And he learned not to underestimate his native competitors, the shamans or medicine men. It was not inconceivable, he felt, that they might perform "preternatural feats with the help of evil spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brother Eskimos | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...function of a college orchestra. Advocates of the first maintain that the orchestra is organized solely for the pleasure and education of its members, and that any activities not in keeping with these goals cannot be tolerated. The other theory states that the orchestra has a duty to perform for the college community--to play the best music in the best way--and that all other considerations are secondary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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