Word: perform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have seen babies bashfully refuse to perform before grown-ups, in the same way, even when cookies are offered as reward; sucking their fingers, smiling at their elders, and scraping the ground with one foot is an excess of embarrassed shyness...
This "shyness" is as contagious as enthusiasm. Have we got to have a curtain, like the substitute organist, behind which to perform? All that is needed is a feeling for the team strong enough to carry everything before it. And above all there is no need to save our voices for the Yale game...
...breaking speed limits. In addition, one hundred and fifty heavy parts will no longer be needed in the automobile, so that here-after heavy cars will ascend into the Franklin class and the Franklin will turn into a balloon. A great new invention is going to perform all these wonders, a crankless engine, one that delivers the power, not by a heavy and cumbersome crankshaft, but by an oscillating disk. This disk, it is confidently predicted by the inventor, will transfer the power from engine to shaft with absolutely no waste of energy. Such perfect efficiency will permit...
Although Worcester Academy has played no games this year, so that there is no definite information about the way in which the team will perform, it is anticipated that the Freshmen will have to put up a good fight if they wish to come off victorious...
...champion, will have four of last year's five place-winners and the time is bound to be fast. Even if Kirksey does compete, it is probable that Leconey of Lafayette will be the ruling favorite partly on account of Kirksey's injury and partly because of Leconey's perform-performances this year. Last season the finish between these two was so close that many spectators thought the Lafayette flyer had won and this year he has equalled ten flat twice and has captured one race in 9 7-10 seconds. While Leconey is the favorite, Woodring of Syracuse, Hutchinson...