Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English Singers, a group of three men and three women, will give a concert of Old English motets, madregals, and folk-songs, comprising in all 25 numbers. The singers are unusual in that they perform informally...
Besides demonstrating the methods of dishonest mediums. Mr. Dunworth will perform mystifying tricks...
Harvard is fortunate in having many tutors who perform their true function, and to them is due the splendid success and almost universal approval the tutorial system has met with among students. But so long as a single tutor remains content to regard himself as one in kind with the hirelings of tutoring schools, the tutorial system at Harvard will fall short of its fullest service as an instrument in education; and the majority of unfortunates who go to such a tutor will continue to regard the divisional examinations as an added hurdle to be got over...
Under the Soviet regime, the drama in Russia takes the form of travelling companies who perform at industrial plants during the hours of recreation. Amateurs, in the form of local workers supplement the efforts of the actors, and though this form of drama probably has little literary significance, it is said to be immensely emotional and very effective...
...their nerves under pressure, the liability of their hearts to variation, and their general inclination toward giddiness, women seldom function as airplane pilots. Occasionally, in flying circus outfits, women have capitalized the fact that their sex is, in the air, a freak, and accepted large sums of money to perform comparatively safe flights. But never in the history of aeronautics, until last week, had a woman publicly announced that she would fly a speed plane in a great race. Miss Ruth Gillette of Los Angeles entered her Sikorsky Messenger in the "on to New York" race-the first event...