Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary declared: "If the policy of building up the enlisted strength of the Air Corps by transfers from the other arms is continued, the Army will soon be unable properly to perform its many missions...
Associated intimately with Mr. Whiting and his concerts was George Barrere, who never failed, year in and year out, to perform on his famous flute with a perfection known only to the foremost flutists of history. And just as intimately associated as Mr. Whiting was the Gluck Melodie which he rendered every year with ever increasing freshness and variety...
Wisely, the test of American Legion membership is honorable service. Few soldiers could choose the service they would perform. Had the choice been theirs, three million more would have found the front lines, and acquitted themselves well. As good and as brave soldiers never left American training camps as fought in France, and I take nothing from the American soldier, the greatest individual of any army...
...Einstein has been considering another trip to U. S. for three years. (He visited in 1921.) He will arrive just in time to see Dr. Michelson perform his light experiments. Since he was a young physics instructor at Annapolis, Dr. Michelson has repeated his measurements from time to time, refining his technique with each performance. In 1926, he shot a beam of light from Mt. Wilson to San Antonio Peak, 22 mi. away, determined that light travels 186,284 mi. per sec. Later he was convinced that he might have made an error of 18.62 mi. per sec. because...
...daughter but to interview Dean Arthur Herbert Wilde. She would do the girl's work for her, she explained, and relay it to the hospital. Dean Wilde consented. There is now no danger of Daughter Margaret's not receiving her degree, so well did her mother perform...