Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proud of his pet, Worker Moe despatched it to his grandmother, Fru Sigurd Bugg-Moe at Bergen, Norway. Fru Bugg-Moe was bitten by the squirrel while attempting to make it perform on Christmas...
Born in 1860, in a Massachusetts sea coast village, Leonard's first ambitions were nautical. He was graduated from Harvard an M.D. The rules of the hospital to which he was attached provided that no interne could perform an operation. One day the ambulance brought in an injured child. Wood operated to save life, saved it, was fired. So he went into the Army, was sent out west, applied for a regular fighting job, got it, chased Geronimo, last of the Indian fighters, shared with General Lawton full credit for his capture...
...whole administrative system of Soviet Russia is made difficult to understand by the deliberate care with which perfectly well understood relationships are disguised under new and strange names. Thus M. Rykov is not, literally speaking, "Premier" but "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars," who perform exactly the function of ministers in an ordinary cabinet...
Interns. Medical school graduates, practically everywhere in the U.S. at present, must perform at least one year of internship in a recognized hospital before being acceptable as a practitioner. In the hospitals their work is supposed to be practical, the putting into practice of their academic knowledge. Their salaries are meagre, generally between $25 and $30 a month besides board, lodging and laundry. Orderlies earn $40 to $60 a month and keep. Nurses get more. But theirs is a trade, whereas the intern is an embryo professional man. He is paying in a way for his educational contracts with skilled...
...hate to watch good dancing, however, come to hear that undergraduate Orpheo--Adonis, C. E. Henderson '28 perform upon his alleged musical instrument, the Goofus. It would not be fair to the mummers to describe to you this interesting invention. Thuffith it to thay that the Goofuth its worth hearing, and Ichabod Barlett of the Class of 1780 worth seeing when he accomplishes his unexpected goofusization...