Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentenced to 30 days in jail for bootlegging in her swanky three-story saloon in Manhattan's 58th Street (TIME, Feb. 16), opened a new resort outside Reno, Nev. Converted from a dairy barn, the place is decorated with pictures of monkeys; a troupe of dancing Negresses perform monkeyshines. In a nearby outhouse there...
...Listen, you high-combed roosters, don't you go away from here and say I'm a Socialist because I'm not. . . . You wouldn't go get a sawmill man and have him perform an operation for appendicitis on you, would you? Well, nobody ever claimed Hugh White ever had a minute's training in governmental affairs. . . . It's a money campaign. . . . Everything I am today I owe to my mother and father. . . . Hugh White has spent his whole life in the pursuit of wealth. He says a man should not be elected to office unless...
...Sunday School pupils. Partially supported by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Church in the U. S., these churches are guided by Italian ministers but looked after by the U. S. The Italian Government permits registered Italian Methodist ministers, as well as Roman Catholic priests, to perform marriages, funeral services and other sacraments. In Rome the Methodist Church runs a school for Italian boys: the Collegio Internazionale Monte Mario. There are a girls' school in Rome, an orphanage in Naples, a vocational school in Venice...
...Have you enlarged your knowledge of obligations and increased your capacity to perform them...
...Whether a person or country should undertake obligations is debatable. Whether they should perform them...