Word: performed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect to the flag, respect for parents and the home, and the dignity and necessity of honest labor," to be given in all the grade and high schools of the state. The standards which these courses are to meet and the way in which they are to perform their somewhat difficult mission will all be cared for by that worthy individual, the state superintendant of schools...
...Austin, Tex., came Jose Torres, Augustin Salido, Tomas Zafiro, Lola Cuzarare, her sister Juanita. All are famed Tarahumara Indian runners of Mexico. They were to perform for the white men at the University of Texas games to substantiate nebulous reports of their prowess...
...ballerina (as he had done once or twice before) and began to dance. Everyone was vastly delighted, for the Count's dancing is superb, and there was something quite out of the common in seeing the Chief of the Military Cabinet, got up as a woman, perform a pas-seul...
Toto, who weighs 118 pounds and can enclose himself in a two foot cube, is generally thought to be double-jointed. Disparaging this rumor, Toto said, "There is no such thing as being double-jointed. Every trick I perform is made possible through practice. Houdini was not a contortionist; he was a trickster. Each of his acts were done by subtility, and not by muscular coordination. Anyone can double himself into a small space if he will only practice...
...flock the archbishop gave instructions how to perform self-marriage without benefit of priest: "Prepare in your house an altar. Place upon it some image of your devotion. Upon your bended knees make the sign of the cross and recite the Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria and the Credo. Pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and give thanks to God. Then standing before the altar the bridegroom will say 'I - before God and witnesses declare I wish to receive for my wife Señ0rita -as the Holy Roman Catholic Church prescribes.'" The girl says the equivalent...