Word: perform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Instrumental Clubs will make their formal debut November 5, the night before the Princeton game in a joint concert with the Princeton musical clubs at Sanders Theatre. There are 120 members in the four branches of the Instrumental Clubs who will perform next month at the Princeton festival...
...Prophet.* The citizens of Mecca, about 610 A. D., were idly curious when Mohammed, a jovial but second-rate trader of their town, contracted the habit of repairing to a cave in the hills nearby, sometimes alone, sometimes with his elderly wife or a slave, to perform secret things for days at a time. Perhaps, it was thought, he was counterfeiting. But this Mohammed, a shambling wight of 40, was a standing, harmless joke. Epileptic as a boy, he had later acquitted himself with notable lack of distinction in the trading caravans. He was no fighter. A rich widow, years...
...Shemokin they used to say, "Joe never speaks unless he has something to say." That has become a Shemokin tradition. My original thought was to pick an All-American team for 1926, and thus win the distinction of being the first, as well as of course the best, to perform that feat this year. But that is against CRIMSON policy, they tell me, and CRIMSON policy is a fearful and wonderful thing. They sometimes even put me on an inside page...
Intra-Atomic Energy. If matter could be sent out of existence and made to reappear as energy, unlimited power would be on tap. Instead of one royal phenomenon like radium, there would be a grand democracy of matter in which the homeliest substances would lie ready to perform potent miracles. It would be something for nothing with a vengeance. In his presidential address, Dr. James F. Norris of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Society's chief, dwelt upon this subject most optimistically. The initial energy required to alter atomic arrangements and in so doing release new energy...
...Navy Wilbur, "was more brilliant than Commander John Rodgers. . . ." There is no Rodgers in the service now. Navy men all, he was the last of them, killed just after he had earned retirement from active service, just as he was planning fresh feats for the Navy to perform in its new PN-10 seaplanes...