Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countless numbers of people " tune in" every evening, and pick up what diverting sounds they can through the air. The programs broadcast were at first very fine, especially in the way of music. The radio transmits tone with a great fidelity, and important singers and instrumentalists were glad to perform for the new wonder. Philosophers saw splendid things for music in this nightly projection of high refinements of the art into the innumerable radio-owning homes of non-concert-going people. But the radio programs have sadly deteriorated in quality. This has followed from the circumstance that the great radio...
...fortunately, of their successors one has proved his ability before; and the other, by his fact and his popularity with the Class of 1926. has given every evidence of being able to care for the Class of 1927. The University is to be congratulated on finding such men to perform this invaluable service of liaison and supervision...
...college press can perform a most valuable service by enhancing this view and so giving the student that much less to get over after he leaves the halls of his Alma Mater
...complete its business satisfactorily within two or three weeks. It is possible that she has discovered that continual swinging of her war club does not bring foreign money for the development of her resources. Turks are notoriously poor farmers, manufacturers and tradesmen. They much prefer to have others perform such drab necessities of life and in view of this, their policy of refusing guarantees to foreign investors has been extremely shortsighted...
...partly supported by facts. The automatic tool, in the use of which a man repeats one motion over and over, has proved a powerful agent for fostering sub-normal intelligence--and strangely enough, really puts a premium on under-developed minds. The normal or highly-educated man does not perform mechanical tasks as expertly as the half-wit, so the latter flourishes and multiplies...