Word: performance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...past wars--a total of over 440 million dollars--enough to build two hundred Widener libraries. The only possible way to stop this mad race of nations apparently trying only to discover which can bear the greatest burden of taxation, is to end the race. The United States would perform a higher mission than every before were she to set the example here...
...various kinds will be served, and the entertainment will consist of music and readings. Professor I. L. Winter '86 and Mr. F. W. C. Hersey '99 will read from modern English authors. L. G. del Castillo '14 will play selections on the piano, and J. T. Lanman '15 will perform feats of "black magic...
...entertainment will consist of readings from Bret Harte by Professor I. L. Winter '86 and of other stories by Mr. F. W. C. Hersey of the English Department. J. T. Lanman '15 will perform feats of necromancy, and L. G. del Castillo '14 will play several pieces on the piano. There will also probably be other forms of music during the evening...
These masses, probably over 400,000,000 in number, perform the work of horses and oxen in the agricultural districts and of steam and electricity in the cities. "China," said Dr. Eliot, "is the one country visited in which I found human muscle for every purpose the cheapest form of power...
These coolies, who perform harder physical labor for longer hours than do most beasts of burden and in addition undergo the worst of privations and hardships, are nevertheless possessed of the greatest cheerfulness. Naturally immobile and entirely devoid of nervous emotion, the race is characterized by the greatest patience, and many centuries of suffering have strengthened it against all external conditions...