Word: performs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...such cases, it is possible for surgeons to cut out most of the tubelike gullet, pull the stomach high into the chest cavity and connect it directly to the back of the throat. Such an operation, however, can take up to seven hours to perform. The chances of 75-year-old Grimes surviving it were slight. Sinai Staff Surgeon Edgar Frank Berman decided to try something else...
...rule is known to the doctors before they send a patient to the hospital; it is known also that if the rule is broken, the facilities of the hospital will no longer be available to the doctor. Dr. Stephens signed a promise to abide by the rule not to perform an operation for sterilization. Knowing that such an operation would close the hospital to him, he nevertheless performed it. The facilities of the hospital have, therefore, been closed to Dr. Stephens...
...usually as obvious as their aim is erratic. Perhaps the liveliest number is the most elaborate: a take-off of a 1960 presidential campaign conducted entirely by television. The show overworks Comic Jules Munshin, who is pleasant to have around now & then, and overtaxes Comedienne Mary McCarty, who can perform-but not miracles...
Cacciotti will conduct the group, which is composed of some of his freshman colleagues in the University Band. The German horn-blowers wish to perform for the freshmen during each Wednesday evening meal with programs of light classics...
...departments, are high; and aspirants had better have a good understanding of pantographs, sismographs, spinthariscopes, the electrolysis of nickel compounds, the 12-tone scale, and most of the wizardry of modern electronics--to mention only a few points. This is all sine qua non equipment and enables you to perform the elementary tasks of childhood, such as forging checks, bombing out enemy areas, leading scorched-earth campaigns, and locating uranium deposits in the back yard...