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Word: repeat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and George Santayana," only time (lower case) can tell how right he is. I dare your book editor to reread any of Lewis' or Faulkner's books of the early '30s in comparison with Arnndel, The Lively Lady or Captain Caution and repeat his claim that they are Roberts' betters. Perhaps Santayana might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Several popular pieces will be repeated tonight. "Tarantella," by Randall Thompson '20 will be sung for a second time this spring. Based on a poem by Hilaire Belloc, this number was written for the Yale Glee Club in 1937. The Choruses from "Patience" will also get a repeat performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club to Give Last of Widener Concerts Tonight | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

...crack about too many "Byrds in the Congress" set off indignant flappings and cawings over Capitol Hill. The old cry of "purge" rang through its tiled corridors. The President was annoyed that the crack got out; he hadn't meant his caller (A.V.C. Chairman Gil Harrison) to repeat it. At his news conference he refused to amplify the remark, declared that he was not interested in purges. The people, he said tartly, would take care of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rude Noise | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...session ended, George Drew and his party began to attack the Liberals for their bureaucracy, their failure to do anything about a prospective drop in Canada's foreign trade, and their haste in calling the election. There was a good chance that the country would also hear him repeat a charge that he made last week-that the Liberals were "socialists in low gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Leadership Test | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...course of the night, 40 BBC listeners protested Sir Alfred's "damns," and another 14 sent congratulations on his forthrightness. Said Sir Alfred in the morning: "I apologized to the archbishop last night, but I repeat, it [modern art] is all a lot of damned nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Damned Nonsense | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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