Word: performed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is, however, still one service left to perform which often others must perform for him, it is a service which might once have been a pleasure, even a triumph but now, through time, is a sacrifice and almost a desecration. It seems to cheapen. It is not always careful and discriminating, though in good hands it may be. It is the popularization of the man's name, the exposition of his works and wisdom for public consumption the creating of a "human" atmosphere about him, so that, though still not fully comprehended, scholarship may have a name...
...immemorial antiquity, an attempt was made last week to stamp it out utterly by His Excellency Jules Garde, Governor-General of French West Africa. To women who thus beautify themselves in future, a jail term of from two to five years. To "parents or beauty doctors" who perform or abet such beautification, jail sentences of from five to ten years. Thus proclaimed native heralds, by authority derived from President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic...
Director-in-chief Hofmann's pol icy will doubtless continue to permit Curtis Institute teachers to perform as well as instruct. Active interplay of public and professional life keeps classrooms alive. Herr Hofmann was himself taught by Anton Rubenstein at an active period during the latter's career. Conversely, Herr Hofmann has found time during his best piano years for activities outside the concert hall, not only teaching but inventing mechanisms. Many a luxurious motor car bears Hofmann shock absorbers. By a Hofmann device, the finest shadings of a master's touch can be charted beside the perforations in pianola...
...greatest show on earth now presents for your kind approval the only lady in the world who can do a triple play with no men on in the first and Cobb at bat. With nothing up either sleeve (she's careless that way) the little lady will now perform this greatest and only performance of its kind. Rest your eyes upon...
...neutral party to select officials for the Harvard-Yale football game, says that this step, coupled with such a one as the formation in recent years of an eastern basketball league, "shows a tendency towards a single goal-an eastern conference". Such an organization would, according to the Daily, perform the same function as the Big Ten Conference; its power would eventually become as great and its unity as strong...