Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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April 25, 1922, the Doheny interests received a preferential right to lease Reserve No. 1 under a contract to perform certain works for the Navy at Pearl Harbor...
Wagner died in Venice, and there ensued that fantastic nocturnal carrying of his body by Italian enthusiasts. After his death, the Baireuth Festivals continued and pilgrims from all over the world flocked to them yearly. Their purpose was to perform the Wagnerian works with the utmost perfection, and in complete accordance with the usages that Wagner had laid down with great detail. Whether in the later years of their flourishing they were the best Wagnerian performances in the world may be greatly doubted...
...Perform Twice at Hot Springs...
...University to its utmost, without the assistance of any benevolent jinx. In spite of the unfortunate injury of Captain Stout, which incapacitates him for the rest of the season, the reorganized Tigers gave the powerful Yale sextette a hard battle last Saturday, and may be relied upon to perform tonight in the same fashion...
...explain that it was only Beals' unusual ability that kept him in the first string when apparently ineffective at his post by the right boards. This theory loses force, however, when it is remembered that Hodder, the new right wing, is a southpaw, who could hardly be expected to perform any better than his predecessor, since he will have to shoot from his back-hand...