Word: perform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largely responsible for Ruth's remarkable ability to hit the ball for home runs. These tests gave him a rating of ninety per cent efficiency compared to an average for humankind of pitiful sixty per cent. His eyes were twelve per cent faster than the average, his ears perform their functions in ten per cent less time than the average, and 499 out of 500 persons have nerves less steady than...
...establishment of scholarships for English students, there may be seen a definite step toward the realization of this dream. The interest which has been aroused over the subject encourages the hope that Princeton's action is the beginning of a general movement among the American universities which will perform a real service to the country...
...from the healers of nervous disorders, it is quite in accord with principles which they know and apply -- sometimes with music itself. In war hospitals it was found that quiet music had a most beneficial effect on certain cases of shell-shock, especially when someone could be found to perform it who understood how to make it the vehicle of a personal influence of quietude...
...tutorial classes, each in charge of a member of the staff of some large university, and each composed of not more than thirty members, all pledged to attend for three consecutive years. The course of study includes required reading and essay work, which all the students pledge themselves to perform. Under the second group several one year classes of a hundred members each, and many study circles are conducted. In not a few cases the work of instruction in carried on by former attendants at the carried on by former attendants at the carried on by former attendants...
Besides a Symphony Orchestra of 120 players, a chorus of 1000 voices, a ballet of 100 dancers and 20 solo dancers, a number of special artists have been engaged to perform. Among these will be Lucrezia Bori, Frieda Hempel, Rosa Ponselle, and Arthur Hackett...