Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instead of strolling, the company will travel by means of a Ford truck, which each night will be converted into the stage on which the actors perform before their village audiences. By day the truck appears like any other truck upon the road. At night, its, sides are folded out and supported on hinged legs, giving a stage some 15 feet square. An upper stage is placed over the driver's seat. Then a canvas roof and background is raised over the platform, tents are raised to right and left for dressing rooms, and a curtain stretched between...
...land were needed to furnish next year's wheat supply, the exact portion of the world best suited for that purpose would be so used. An agricultural army, recruited at whatever wages were necessary to secure the requisite numbers, would move out from the cities in the Spring, perform the necessary work, proceed to another area to do a different kind of work there, etc. Mr. Gillette calculates that an army of 5,000,000 men properly directed could do all the world's farming in six months of the year. There could be no unemployment or need...
...Irish Free State Minister of Home Affairs dissolved the Dublin Corporation, stating that investigation had shown that the duties of members were not duly and effectually discharged. Three Commissioners were appointed to perform the Corporation's duties...
Asahi: "France and Japan have a duty to perform in Asia...
...have already gas of such potency that it will lay waste whole cities; the "ray" is not so deadly as this; it attacks only the specific object at which it is directed. And there remains the justifiable skepticism in the ability of all of these lethal toys to perform in action as atipulated. After all, they must be operated by human beings, and, human beings are vulnerable. Probably the horrors of war will be increased, but its effectiveness, which has not increased with modern weapons, will remain the same. The proportion of casualties to total-numbers engaged has not increased...