Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the gun goes off starting the one-mile race at the Garden tomorrow, what should turn out to be one of the best distance races ever seen in this meet will be under way. Johnny Meadon, the captain of the Big Red team, will be seeking to repeat the victory he gained last year; but he will be pushed hard by his teammate Wreck Welch and Alex Northrop of Harvard. Last year's winning time was 4:27.6, and a week ago Welch took the mile against Yale in 4:27.6, running without spikes on a bank-loss track...
...second time, this Saturday, the Freshmen will be represented on the boards. With Lerner and Hollands out with leg injuries, this Saturday's team will consist of Light body, MacDonald, Mason Fernald, and Sherman Hoar. If Light body and MacDonald can repeat their respective 50 and 52-second quarters, and Fernald and Hoar perform up to expectations, the team will in all probability come home with the medal...
...repeat: stop your filthy sheet at once...
...born in the Moldavian Hills in 1881. He used to listen to the songs of gypsies and repeat them on a crude, three-stringed fiddle. At 7, his father tried to enter him in Vienna Conservatory. Master Hellmesberger squinted over his spectacles, growled that the Conservatory was "not a cradle," took the boy in grudgingly. Four years later young Georges won first prizes in violin and harmony...
Unpleasant as it may be, the process of going over old examinations pays dividends. There is no easier way to find out what mistakes not to repeat, how better to organize material under pressure, and how to perfect the art of padding little substance, than by reviewing past experience. And often nebulous ideas, hastily put down, can later be recovered and put to good advantage by further investigation and study...