Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dancing girls are a new feature this year. They will perform in a spot called "Annex-Dotes," written and directed by author Robert Ashenhurst '50, Rachel Mellinger '52 assisted Ashenhurst, and Georgianne Davis '51 directed the chorus line...
...looks fairly conventional to the man on the ground. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines, it is rated at a top speed above 600 m.p.h., can be fitted with wingtip tanks to extend its range. The Canberra was designed as a high-altitude radar bomber, can also perform all normal fighter maneuvers, and has shown possibilities as a low-level ground support plane. Said Pilot Callard: "A most docile aircraft-it's so easy...
...Such remarks are symptomatic of the attitude that has so antagonized labor. Union heads agree with Wilson that government officials must serve the public rather than any special interest; they resent bitterly Wilson's apparent lack of confidence in the willingness of labor leaders to do this, or to perform on a par with business executives. As one top C.I.O. official has put their case: "We don't want a man we can control; we want a man we can talk to. The only people who can talk to Wilson are those from industry. We certainly...
...first iron lung was also conceived and invented by a man in the School of Public Health, Phillip Drinker, head of the Department of Industrial Hygiene. Over 20 years ago, Drinker was watching a colleague, Louis A. Shaw, perform experiments to measure the amount of air a cat held in its lungs after a normal breath...
Most of the scripts suffered from beginner's errors in stagecraft. Few of the performers were actually called upon to perform; their parts required them mainly to recite monologues in formal poses. Little of the writing had really been adapted to the requirements of the stage. Nevertheless, the Theatre can be a valuable laboratory for these writers to improve their dramatic technique: particularly, they must learn to write lines meaningful and effective to an audience that hears them only once...