Word: performance
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Gruff, creaking old (62) Lionel Barrymore heard the Los Angeles WPA Orchestra perform his symphony, Tableau Russe, was so amazed he decided to finish another symphony he started a few years back. Grunted Composer Barrymore, who practices many arts: "It is not only amusing but pleasing to have all this happen...
...choir of Christ Church, Cambridge, conducted by W. Judson Band Jr., organist and choirmaster, will present the Germanic Museum concert on Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock. They will perform works by Titcomb, Peerson, Praetorius, Saint-Sacus, and Randel...
...Laborite Shinwell went on to denounce the Government's propagandist optimism ("The people of this country have no desire to be fobbed off with an exaggerated optimism which has no foundation in fact'') and the Government's inconsistent announcements on industrial production ("The Government should perform like a symphony orchestra and not like a jazz band...
...return for giving Britain priority on the bombers, Britain was to help the U. S. 1) through a production bottleneck by turning over to the Army enough engines to equip 41 Flying Fortress-type bombers, 2) by granting facilities to U. S. Army observers to watch American-made bombers perform in combat flight over the British Isles. If big bombers are to be sent to Britain this year, it did not seem likely that they would be withheld next year-even if the U. S. has to lend Britain the money to buy them...
When Kamiya had seen with his own eyes the rhythmic throb of Physarum, a question leaped into his mind: "What is the horsepower, what is the amount of force involved?" To find out, he devised a new experiment. To perform it, he takes a little piece of the mold, works it into a sort of dumbbell shape-two blobs connected by a thin strand. He puts this into an air chamber divided into two compartments by a block of agar (marked C in the diagram). The two blobs, a and b, are in separate chambers but are connected...