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Word: performs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ignored and refused to debate the qualifications of the 17 "promoted" to school system jobs. James Fitzgerald, one of the independents, says that no objections were raised to the people as individuals and none have been raised; therefore, there is no reason to believe that they will perform badly in their jobs...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Elections Feature Bitterness, Comedy | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Last week South Vietnamese celebrated the 2.508th anniversary of the birth of Due Khong Tu, better known as Confucius, by watching schoolgirls in ivory-colored costumes perform ceremonial dances, cheering wildly at basketball games, and listening with hushed attention to speeches by black-turbaned, silk-robed village scholars. Throughout the country citizens were urged to pay even more attention to the ancient Confucian code of ethics. Heads of families were told to shun frivolous entertainments (chess games and orchid exhibitions are permissible), and soldiers were warned that nightclubs and cabarets are morally off-limits to them. Girls were forbidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Revival in Viet Nam | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Reider has been fighting a cold for the past few days, and McCurdy, hopeful that his second-flight runners could perform well enough to defeat the rather weak Columbia and Penn teams, decided at the last moment to rest...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Varsity Harriers Record Easy Win In Triangular Meet at New York | 10/19/1957 | See Source »

...factory for maintenance, so tomorrow's new radar ranges, electronic dishwashers and color TV consoles will have plug-in motors and control units that only factory experts will repair with special tools and special knowledge. The major labor the U.S. repairman will be called upon to perform-at his $5-an-hour fee-will be to take out a nonfunctioning unit, plug in a substitute and ship the original back to the plant. And then some day U.S. industry will achieve its ultimate goal: the humming electronic gadgets in every U.S. household will be virtually foolproof. By the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Out of Order | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

While the characters sometimes perform with the bedlam logic of a Marx Brothers film, their creator is still the only master of Bemelmanship-the art of not blowing a shimmering literary soap bubble past its bursting point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bubbles & Bemelmanship | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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