Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glory of God. David does so without reserve or discrimination, even bringing death and agony into his own family in his altruistic passion. But the effect of his gifts is to turn the people against him when his money runs out. They stone him because he cannot perform miracles. Anathema, exulting in his proven exposure of divine justice, then returns to the gates of Heaven to demand an explanation. He refuses to tell Anathema anything more, declaring that the ways of God must remain forever inscrutable...
...Secretary, however, takes cognizance of this difference. Said he: " Including public debt payments in the classification of military expenditures . . . is in the same dishonest category as charging up to the army the civilian work which it is obliged to perform by acts of Congress. One may even question the propriety of including the cost of operations of the Pension Bureau and the Veterans' Bureau in the list of military expenditures. These prodigious costs are to a large extent the direct result of our unpreparedness...
...secretions from the ductless glands, is susceptible to control by chemical methods, claims Dr. Josiah S. Hughes, professor of chemistry in the Kansas State Agricultural College. Compounds may be produced which will modify inherited dispositions, induce natural sleep, give the exhilaration of stimulants without their consequent depression, perform other miracles now undreamed of. It is only fair to say that psychiatrists and physiologists are still generally from Missouri" on such romantic possibilities...
...know that halfway reforms are ineffective. The only way to cure the evils of divorce is to completely abolish divorce." This he proposes to do eventually by Constitutional amendment, but more immediately by refusing to recognize decrees granted to Americans in foreign countries, and by taking the power to perform the marriage ceremony out of the hands of irresponsible people, such as County Clerks and Justices of the Peace, who will marry almost anyone at a moment's notice. Justice Morschauser advocates this reform only as a measure to protect the home and national morality, and would still allow...
...after three months of negotiation, in which the whole village took part, it was decided to give no portion of the Passion Play in America. The act which the hundred players will perform will be a version of life in the Bavarian village, with especial reference to their woodcarving craft. Thus the tradition of 1644, a unique relic of medieval piety, is partially saved from the taint of commercialism