Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to go was the new men's bath, a 600-ft. barge whose bottom is pierced with innumerable holes, where Heidelberg men perform their ablutions. With a loud rending of the steel bands that held it to the wharf it broke loose, swung out into the racing yellow Neckar, crashed down on the solid Friedrich Bridge, split into a thousand fragments...
...result of the game is that the Harvard players seem to have found themselves and should be expected to perform more of less creditably for the remainder of the season. Coach Mitchell sprung a surprise lineup on the visitors when he sent Wood to short, Mays to second, and shifted Captain McGrath to first. Although some of the throws to first from the vicinity of second base seemed unnecessarily slow, the new combination worked smoothly. Another encouraging sign in that Des Roches, one of the Crimson's most reliable batsmen at the beginning of the season, has begun to connect...
Decathlon, Weather has more effect on this than any other event, for all ten efforts of the decathlon must be made in one day. To perform ten feats of strength, speed and agility in one day is hard even with the sun shining. Weary, disheveled, muscle-sore were the seven contestants at the day's end, but for one man up went great cheers which he, wrapped in a blanket, acknowledged with a tired lift of his hand-cheers for Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger, Penn's "one-man track team." He had won the decathlon two years in succession...
...opened just in time to see this year's Easter bonnets. Aged 22, he had been blind since birth. His uncle, a Philadelphia optometrist with whom he lived, believed that the cataracts which caused the trouble might be removed. Dr. George Henry Moore, Philadelphia eye specialist, consented to perform the difficult, delicate operations.* Last week Earl Musselman removed the bandages and, like the Bethsaidan, saw things differently than he had imagined them...
...Many of us would be astonished if we knew how many surgeons, lawyers, actors and men in many other professions are accustomed to use stimulants before they are to perform an operation or when they want to key themselves up to meet an important situation...