Word: performeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personnel had to be folded up like a telescope so that operations against the advancing enemy could proceed without an hour's halt; so that men could perform their last service from Kweilin, fly south at nightfall, to pick up the thread of continuity at rear bases immediately...
Entertainers from various night spots will perform for the Army men, while the band from the Boston Port of Embarkation will supply the music...
...years Bergen has been as wary of female dummies as McCarthy is likely to be after his first encounter with Effie Klinker. Long ago Bergen had a bad vaudeville flop with the effigy of an eight-year-old. But ten months ago, asked to perform on an NBC show without either McCarthy or Snerd, he folded his handkerchief over his fingers, threw his falsetto voice, and one Ophelia began to talk. "All of a sudden," recalls Bergen, "it dawned on me that women can get into many more situations than men, particularly a bachelor maid." Bergen has kept Ophelia...
Says Karpov: "Priests may go to their parishioners and may engage in proselytizing work either in church or outside without any restriction except those placed upon any orderly citizen of the U.S.S.R. . . . They may officiate in private homes if they so desire, may perform baptismal, marriage and funeral services in or outside churches...
These machines get their greatest play during the week between terms when class standings, grades, and course enrollments must be compiled. "Before the war," remarked Henry S. Dyer, Assistant Dean, "there was four months for a crew of extras, working with hand-methods, to perform the various functions incident to cleaning up the records of one year and preparing the records of the next. Now the same job, with new complications introduced by the advent of V-12 students, is completed in the one week between terms." The day before grades come out, Harvard's 10,000 course cards pass...