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Word: performance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under average conditions. During the past week Whiteside has been endeavoring to remedy the washing out or light finish which appeared to be one of the main faults in the Columbia race. The crew is in fine condition, with divisional over, and with good water should be able to perform creditably in what will be an exceptional regatta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADAMS CUP SOUGHT BY HARVARD, PENN, NAVY | 5/15/1936 | See Source »

Unlike active Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring of Des Moines, 1934-35 president of the A.M.A., who had a leg amputated many years ago, Dr. Mason will be unable to perform his presidential duties. Those continue pro tern on the conscientious shoulders of President James McLester, professor of nutrition at the University of Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pre-Convention Amputation | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Because too many baseball addicts would rather listen to free broadcasts of major-league games than pay money to see their own minor-league teams perform, baseball's white-mopped Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis last week ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broadcasting Ban | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...lives of the child's nursemaids; a father whose sole energies are absorbed in his relentless pursuit of the poor nurses; a servant who is blind, about seven feet tall and as ugly as his disposition. There are sundry other characters moving about with appropriate mystery their evils to perform. There is a mysterious old tower which houses, one is cryptically informed, some of the weirdest specimens of taxidermical skill, a dilapidated old boat landing where sport the largest and most vicious crabs imaginable and numerous other terrible appurtenances to frighten the timid and delight the morbid...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/21/1936 | See Source »

Appearing in its last Cambridge concert of the season, the Pierian Sodality of 1908 will perform this evening in Paine Hall. The only other two concerts will be at Wellesley and the Connecticut College for Women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Cambridge Concert For Pierians Tonight In Paine | 4/21/1936 | See Source »

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