Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...except in the first and last years, are mostly perfunctory, routine duties and that naturally enough, a realization of this circumstance does not inspire heated electioneering or eager voting. On the other hand, it ought to be equally clear that however mechanical these tasks may be some one must perform them. But the answer appears to have been found by the Class of 1925 in the postal ballot...
Requesting his subject to decide on a series of acts for him to perform, Mr. Leitner left the room. He said that a thought from the reporter, when he was ready, would be enough to recall him. This proved to be the case. The reporter thought, "Come back," and Mr. Leitner returned...
Captain Charles O'Hearn, no doubt, will feel at a loss without his ancient rival George Owen Jr. on the ice,--and the University would like, almost as much as Captain O'Hearn, to see its former Paladin perform. Unfortunately, the paths of glory lead but to graduation. But there are, around Harvard, still a few men who can play hockey-- to use a boastful expression--and perhaps Captain O'Hearn can be consoled. No one wants to smash Yale's dreams of empire, of course--as Mr. Heywood Broun philosophized, "Some of my best friends are Yale...
...classed as a party question, but if any party, repeatedly advocating a World Court, is to be rended by the suggestion of an effort to perform in accordance with its pledges, it needs a new appraisal of its assets...
...because they were intelligent enough to understand or to visualize it--who has created a definite goal, toward which all nations will find themselves irresistibly urged in the perhaps not distant future, cannot be said to have failed. It is true that he could not perform the impossible task of instantly overcoming the inborn inhibitions and accumulated prejudices of the Senate, or of the American people or of the world. It is unfortunately true that he had no way of raising mankind to his own mental plane. But if Woodrow Wilson "failed," failure takes on a new significance...