Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only function assigned to the Kladd by the Klan constitution ..... perform such duties as are assigned to him by the Imperial Wizard...
Those who seek positions on the business board will have the usual work to perform. Soliciting advertisements, scouting around for subscriptions, and doing regular office work comprise most of the labors. The competition is so designed as to leave the candidate plenty of time for study and recreation...
...extraordinary spring and summer which followed have changed this situation altogether. As long as "bull" speculation rules in grain, legislators keep silent. The farmers are beginning to realize that running elevators and making prices are harder to perform in practice than on paper. Meanwhile, huge advances in grain values have yielded large profits to traders, and commission brokers are active, prosperous, optimistic...
...Republican platform is right in assuming that the United States, in its own interests and the interests of the world, if it is to play its part and perform its duty in international matters, must do so outside of membership in the League of Nations...
...journalistic trade sheets, advertising rises to truly heroic heights ; mere ink and pulp perform prodigious feats. Boosters, hustlers, live-wires, pushers, thousands of miles apart, loudly shout or quietly whisper, hint, insinuate, brazenly state or solemnly propound their messages across the page...