Word: performed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From newspapers a President of the U. S. receives blessings and maledictions in about equal proportions. Seldom is a President reluctant to perform as President Coolidge did last week. In the White House, he pressed a button which closed a circuit which passed a current which started a motor which set a-humming some news presses in a new plant of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal...
...urge all its ministers when they are asked to remarry any divorced person concerning whose right to remarriage there appears to be the slightest question to bring all the papers and all relative information to this committee and to be guided by their judgment in acceding or refusing to perform the desired marriage...
Defending himself against impending suspension, prearranged at last week's meeting of the school board, Mr. McAndrew rehearsed his teacher-clerk testimony and his conception of his duty so clearly, that the ouster vote was tied at 5 to 5. President Coath was obliged to perform a clumsy coup de grace with his deciding vote to make the Thompson campaign promise seem to come true...
When this proposal was broached last week at Rome, the news traveled swiftly to Paris and there drew a loud, whinnying tening expedition, and seemed to have in mind that he would climb up the Italian side of Mont Blanc and perform the rechristening in despite of any French Alpinists who might be lurking near the summit...
...Governor General of the Philippine Islands, not as the retired major general of the U. S. Army, but as the doctor of medicine that he also is. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1884. An interne in a hospital where internes were forbidden to perform operations, he successfully operated on a child in an emergency and was dismissed for infraction of rules. He joined the Army as an assistant surgeon (1886). He served as medical and line officer with Captain Henry Ware Lawton in the great campaign of 1886 against the Apache Indians. For that service Congress...