Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combined track and field team of Oxford and Cambridge will meet the combined Harvard-Yale team in the Stadium, on the afternoon of July 13 and while it is impossible to gauge the strength of the English team with complete accuracy, it seems likely that the American collegians will repeat their 1925 victory. Oxford and Cambridge won the 1927 meet in England...
...southpaw Nekola, reputed to be the best pitcher in college circles with ten victories and no defeats to his credit, may start, but it is more probable that Hebert, a right hander, will try to repeat his feat of last week. The University mentor will place B. H. Ticknor '31 in the sinister garden regardless of Coach Barry's selection...
...hold upon the British favor that their vogue is considered certain to continue even after Dora shall have been rendered extinct by the same unfeeling government that created her. Indeed, the robots of the present have evolved into remarkably gifted samples of their species. They say "Thank you," they repeat trade slogans, they make change. One of the newest of Dora's progeny, however, possesses a truly embarrassing gift. This is a change maker which, when presented with legitimate coin of the realm, silently and efficiently performs its functions. If, however, some thrifty and dishonest Briton insults it with...
...Waldron Smithers, Conservative M.P., was asked by Prime Minister Baldwin to speak at a dance given for new Conservative voters. When Mr. Smithers arrived, Conservative couples were revolving on the floor to the strains of "Sonny Boy" Suddenly inspired, Mr. Smithers stepped to the platform, asked the bandmaster to repeat the selection. Then-even as the French patriot, Rouget de Lisle, is supposed to have improvised the "Marseillaise"; upon a cafe table top-Mr. Smithers is supposed to have improvised verses, of which the following is a sample: When there are grey skies We don't mind the grey...
...this convention came nearly 100 delegates. They heard the Dean repeat the anti-Shields accusations which Des Moines students had made last fortnight. These were that Dr. Shields and the University's Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Edith Rebman, had been morally turpitudinous in Los Angeles, Cal., and Waterloo, Iowa, that he and Miss Rebman, both Canadians, were unAmerican, favored Canadian students, that he and Miss Rebman spied on students and the faculty, caused mistrust, friction...