Word: performance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think you can perform any finer service than to help maintain the Christian doctrine that the relationship of husband and wife is a permanent one, not to be lightly broken because of difficulties or quarrels...
...series of experiments, according to Skinner, deals with the "reward principle," that is, the amount of work a creature will perform in gambling against a future pay-off. Skinner compares this with "the incentive for wage-earning...
...lone brightspot is the return of wingback Hal Moffie, the Crimson's finest breakaway runner and punt returner. Moffie, however, has not seen game action since he was injured on the third play of the Stanford game, and cannot be expected to perform at top efficiency...
...Harvard Band, after having announced that it would not serenade the Dartmouth stands during today's halftime intermission, has reversed its earlier decision and will now perform for the Hanover stands both before the game and between the halves...
After the Stanford game, Columbia, Cornell, Army, Dartmouth, and Holy Cross will perform in the Stadium before the team hits the road. Local followers will be able to see Harvard twice more after it returns from Princeton, when the Crimson entertains Brown and closes against its traditional foe, Yale...