Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Massachusetts will set back its clocks promptly at midnight, but the Maintenance Department has not been in the practice of doing such in past years. In order to perform the operation, the assistant must climb the windy cobwebbed stairs to the top of Memorial Hall's black tower and set back the yard-long hands of the clock itself...
...print a 500-word synopsis of it in its Scenario Bulletin Review, copyright it, submit it "personally to those producers whose current production demands call for this particular type of story"-all for $10. Daniel O'Malley Co. Inc. (proprietor: Daniel S. Margalies) was equally enthusiastic, would perform approximately the same service...
...lectures are not brilliant, but they are well prepared and enlivened by an endless number of exciting lecture table experiments, the performance of which Professor Fieser carries out as well as any lecturer in the department. The time is chiefly given over to a thorough chemical study of the various metals in the periodic table, often with underhanded references to their metallurgy, mining, and industrial significance which usually seem quite beside the point and have no place in the course. The industrial side of the work is emphasized in the laboratory in which a series of experiments are done, mostly...
...lighter part of the program, Harry Bolden, a negro entertainer, has been secured to dance, sing, and give monologues. He will be assisted at the piano by Win Danielson. Newell and Hart, a comedy team, will also perform. It had been hoped to have a quartet from the Instrumental Clubs, but they will be unable to appear, as they are assisting the Hasty Pudding Club in its show tonight. Ashtrays and pipes, inscribed with "H '36" will be given away as souvenirs. There will be refreshments and cigarettes on every table...
...sight of a mouse, pivoting on a hind leg, gyroscopically whirling around 416 times without stopping or reversing might reasonably lead the observer to conclude that he or the mouse was drunk. Yet sober scientists have watched a sober mouse perform this very feat. The whirler was a Japanese waltzing mouse. It whirled because of a physical defect, probably of its inner...