Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitchcock formula is fairly well known by now, and "Saboteur" rarely departs from the established norm. In fact, there are several repeat patterns from former Hitchcock triumphs, notably "The Thirty-Nine Steps," as evidenced in the handcuff scene, the dive from the bridge, and the escape up the rapids. This time the story is set in America. An aircraft factory in Los Angeles is sabotaged; Barry Keane, one of the workers, is accused of setting the fire. He runs away from the police and trails the real saboteur across the country, till the chase comes to a feverish...
Today B. U. takes to the field a decided underdog and will have to pull a real fast one to upset the Crimson. Last Saturday the Varsity walloped the Terriers on their home ground, 15-7, and gives every indication of being able to repeat that performance...
...spite of a group of potentially good tutors, Psychology's tutorial is as ineffective as it is necessary. Particularly because the courses tend to conflict with and repeat each other, good tutorial is a sorely needed connecting force. Only Junior and Senior honors candidates receive individual attention while Sophomores are distributed in groups of three to five, and non-honors men are relegated into even larger groups...
Picking the current champion, Princeton, to repeat this season, they give the Harvard team little chance to improve their 1941 tie for fifth. Coach Floyd Stahl, recognizing the Tigers' threat, also sees them as the squad to beat...
Czecho-Slovakia. At Bratislava, 40 miles east of Vienna, Hitler would see workmen feverishly camouflaging the mammoth dynamite factory so that its colors would blend with those of the freshly plowed Slovak and Hungarian fields. Authorities feared that the R.A.F. might try to repeat its Paris success in Czechoslovakia. In the newspapers Hitler would read about the desperate drive to increase armament production (in some factories it was down to 20% of capacity), but he would know that longer hours might mean more fuseless bombs, more faulty aircraft...