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...through the heavy tracery of a chandelier "The Eye of God'' painted on the ceiling was fixed upon the grey Hoover head as it bent to its task. Around the mosaic floor stood Senators, Representatives, Cabinet members, military aides, clerks and bodyguards silently watching the 31st President perform his final duty, wind...
...once took a live one to a party. Back in Manhattan last week he fell to thinking what fun the Canada trip had been, especially the miner quartet. Putting deed to thought, he telephoned the mine, arranged to have the singers shipped down by special plane in time to perform next evening at a return dinner to Minister McCrea. A second message stipulated that the miners must remain dirty and wear their work clothes to earn their...
...will note that I have not said that the tutorial system fails to perform this function in all cases; I have said simply "in many cases." I am sure that the function of correlation and systematization is admirably performed by those tutors (unfortunately a minority) who have been studying in a field long enough, to enable him to perform that function. In other words, the success of the tutorial system in performing the function in question depends on the maturity of the tutor. I do not have to tell you that most of the tutorial work in Harvard College...
...Department and in still other fields covered by related Departments. Occasionally his research interests may lead him to do this, but for the most part his research work imposes intensive reading in a relatively narrow field. How can we expect a group of specialized research workers to perform for others the function of correlating and systematizing knowledge when they have been unable, and largely owing to the conditions under which they work, to perform that function for themselves...
...bright spotlight necessary for the photographic exposure is believed to be the cause of the reptile's stubbornness. It was stated that the snake has not eaten since Thanks-giving, but that it will not eat until it decides to perform for the Film Foundation...