Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bedside blood test that any family doctor can perform in a couple of minutes has been devised by George Washington University researchers for victims of certain kinds of heart and artery diseases. Hitherto, treatment with anticlotting drugs like Dicumarol and Tromexan meant that patients had to go to a hospital every day; the simplified test means that the drugs can be used more conveniently for more cases...
...damn whether I am a composer or not. I have yet to find the composer who I think is happy. Composers have all year to think about the next note. We have to decide in a second. But they are not played very much, while in jazz you can perform what you compose. When I get inspired, I'm the happiest guy in the world...
...twelve immortal rules and turned "barbarous pugilism" into a gentlemanly sport. The Marquis outlawed such unsporting features as wrestling, hugging and shoes with springs. Last week the Indiana State Athletic Commission added a new refinement to boxing (and wrestling, too). Henceforth, announced the commission, no boxer or wrestler may perform in the state without first swearing that he is not now and never has been a Communist...
Moslems practice what many Christians merely preach: "The priesthood of all believers," as the primitive church called it. All adult Moslems of sound mind may perform any religious function. This Asad found a great advantage. "The absence of all priesthood, clergy, and even of an organized 'church' makes every Moslem feel that he is truly sharing in, and not merely attending, a common act of worship...
...Board reaffirms its faith in the vitally constructive services which fraternities perform in the Cornell community and is desirous in all its action to strengthen and broaden the effectiveness of the fraternities...