Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from borrowed scores, now has a library with a good standard repertory, proudly negotiates a complete symphony at every concert. Wabash College has a Capehart phonograph and a collection of records-gifts of the Carnegie Corporation-which enable the orchestra to hear how the world's big orchestras perform the works in its library. At weekly rehearsals the Crawfordsville musicians often play out of tune, get lost, wheeze and whiffle, come in at the wrong places, and competing basketball games lure away many a player. But as concert nights approach, attendance and teamwork improve, and when the professionals appear...
Baptism. "I fear godparents must go; for though they were beautifully conceived, as an institution they are legally and practically powerless, and should not be tempted to make promises which they know they cannot perform...
Waylaid by a group of M.I.T. fraternity brothers, Rochester, Jack Benny's radio valet, arrived here too late last night to perform before the 1200 Yardlings and upperclassmen who jammed Memorial Hall for the annual Freshman Smoker...
...Perkins to Perform...
...subordinate genii for each organ, each cell. So has an adult organism. Even colonies of individuals may have a commanding genie, as when the marine animals called Portuguese Men-of-War gather in a cluster which behaves like a single animal, with groups of individuals told off to perform various organic functions. Finally, the whole universe, which is in constant evolution, must have a supreme genie-the Cosmos or World Soul...