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Word: performance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be accompanied by the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society in their Symphony Concerts this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock and tomorrow night at 8.30 o'clock. The Harvard singers will be under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison '06 while the Radcliffe songsters will perform to the beat of G. W. Woodworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLOCH'S NEW EPIC FEATURE OF GLEE CLUB'S PROGRAM | 12/21/1928 | See Source »

...which the machine was developed, and which is as yet its only practical application. Is in automatic switching equipment. For instance, the central office desires to turn on a light or perform some similar operation in a distant power station where Televox has been installed and no human beings are present. The dispatcher at headquarters telephones the substation. Televox answers, the signal is given. Televox caries out the command, and reports that it has been done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Man Throws Electric Switches at Sound of Its Inventor's Voice--Televox Developed for Remote Control | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

...first visit to the U. S. nor his first performance in Redemption. Moissi was one of the troupe of German players who came here a year ago with Reinhardt to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in German, as well as other lovely and pretentious novelties. Now he is here with his German company to go touring* in Redemption, in which he has played at intervals for the past 15 years. Curiously enough, Moissi was not born back stage on a winter's night, while his mother was making a quick change in The Sunken Bell. His paternal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Qualities of Moissi | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...been done so effectively by UFA and Sovkino. Instead, the drama of its one genuine situation-a harlot (Norma Talmadge) suspected of the murder of a suicide-is ignored in favor of a series of patently unreal and cinematic developments in which the lady, reformed, is called upon to perform for the sake of her country an act which patriotism unconvincingly transforms from a two-rouble incident to a Holy Sacrifice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 26, 1928 | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...with the Heavenly truths, created an empire based on foundations immutable for all ages, and left behind them a throne destined for all eternity to be occupied by their lineal descendants. By the grace of the spirits of our ancestors this great heritage has devolved on us. We hereby perform the ceremony of enthronement with the sacred symbols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Emperor Enthroned | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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