Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back.' Three nights later, when he was sleeping quietly, I got up and beat him severely about the head and neck with the leg of a broken chair. Of course, I immediately received another beating, but all I did was repeat, 'I still...
...back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies. ¶There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That...
...days when Harvard faculty members were asked to repeat their courses for studious young ladies across the Common, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland refused to lecture to Radcliffe classes. "We can't obliterate a natural tendency," he growled, "but why cultivate...
...frame (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.). Layne, a T-formation specialist, led the Lions out of the National Football League's cellar, called the plays and fired the passes that won them the national championship in 1952 and 1953. He is currently doing his bruising best to repeat that performance. As of this week, the Lions have been defeated only once (by the San Francisco Forty Niners...
...around Princeton and New Brunswick, N.J.--where big-time, heavyweight competition began in 1869 and organized lightweight football held its first championship in 1934--the game rated banner headlines. For local 150-pound enthusiasts, it was a repeat of the first championship between these two elevens. That year Rutgers played to the crown before 10,000, defeating Princeton, and carrying off honors in the newly-organized 150-pound football league...