Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curly-haired urchin drops his threepenny Coronation mug. It breaks, he sobs for his mother. Kind bystanders give him much more than three pennies. Sniveling he moves away, into another street to repeat the racket...
...held Bilbao through a siege of 125 days in the Carlist War of 1874. What made their chances blackest was an almost total lack of airplanes to oppose the German bombers of General Franco. The massacre of Guernica was sharp in every mind. Should General Franco be advised to repeat that mass bombing of a civil population there would be no way of stopping him. Reconnoitering on the Basque Front, 18 Rightist planes became lost in fog, came down perforce in southern France. Allowing them to return, French authorities recorded officially for the first time how preponderant in Spanish skies...
...cause, if TIME must die, for the sake of all that's dramatic, kindly kill it with a sword. Let it not be lamented with wagging head that "TIME passed on" but give the mourners an opportunity to stand at attention and salute the last number while we repeat with pride: "TIME marches...
...shall be in Bilbao any day, any hour," he boasted. "Eight thousand Italians and Germans are leading the advance, and this time we are mixing the Germans in with the Italians just so the Italians will not repeat the Brihuega adventure...
...game. By more moderate theorists it is conceded the useful function of keeping markets liquid. Last week after President Roosevelt's fatherly warning to Government employes to stay out of the market (see p. 15), New York Stock Exchange President Charles R. Gay found occasion in Chicago to repeat the old argument for speculative liquidity, observing that "calculating, measured speculation has been a constructive force. . . .'' Right back at Mr. Gay came the Securities & Exchange Commission's David Saperstein with a distinction between market "liquidity" and "activity." Professional traders, said he, more often created the latter than...