Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidently he intends to repeat his crop this year, by purchasing gasoline wholesale with State funds and selling it to consumers under the prices set by private oil dealers. The latter have decided to fight back, and the Independent Home Oil Co. has applied for an injunction restraining Governor McMaster from going into the oil business with public funds...
...Treasury unless he was in sympathy with the Bonus Bill and the Tax Bill as we had passed them. That, I insist, is a fair statement. He ought not to administer a law unless he can 'do it fairly. That is what I said, and I repeat...
...Chas. Washington.' As is a very common custom in certain parts of the South, he was called 'Chaz.' 'Chaz' could not read music but he had a gift of 'faking' and a marvelous sense of syncopated rhythm. It was a practice to repeat the trio or chorus of popular numbers, and because of the catchiness of 'Chas.'s' drumming he was called on to do his best on the repeats. At the end of the first chorus the leader would say: 'Now Chaz...
Even Crimson well-wishers expected the Tigers to walk away with the opening game of the series, but after Spalding had upset the dope by banding the Nassau men a row of blanks, Harvard was favored to repeat at Princeton ten days ago. Again the predictions went awry. Leaving his pitching ace Caldwell, on the bench, Coach Clarke staked his Tigers' chances on left-hander Townsend, and the latter shaded Spalding in a 3 to 2 pitching duel. So now the sport scribes are looking very wise and saying that the team getting the breaks will...
Townsend will be out to repeat his five-hit triumph over the Crimson, and Spalding will serve them up to the Princeton sluggers for the third time. The Tigers are confident that they have seen everything the Harvard hurler has and that he will no longer be a puzzle. Coach Slattery, on the other hand, believes that his prize pitcher knows the Princeton batters as well as they know him and that his effectiveness will be minimized...