Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This crudite discussion was effectively neutralized by that of another man who was inspired to repeat the famous conversation reported to have taken place between Isadora Duncau, famous dancer, and George Bernard Shaw...
Last year the team was runner-up in the National Championship. This year there is a possibility that the squad might repeat that performance or even improve upon it. Assistant Coach Barnaby thinks the chances are excellent with material like Captain Richard M. Dorson '37, Alvah W. Sulloway '38, John C. Develin '38, Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37, Robert O. Easton '38, Peter F. Cunningham '39, and George B. Blake '39, who as captain of the 1939 team went through the entire season undefeated...
...almost unnecessary to repeat the world's praises. His "Principal Mathematica" and "Process and Reality", among other works of contemporary literature that have come from his pen, have made a place for him beside Plato and Aristotle in the hall of philosophical fame. His attack of bifurcation, his "eternal entities", his consumation of a union between science and philosophy--to mention briefly but a few of his mental activities--will always be remembered...
...actual experimenting, for Dr. Loewi is remarkably clumsy, breaking almost everything he touches. This characteristic almost ruined Dr. Loewi's career a decade ago. He asserted that a certain substance inhibited the action of insulin in the body. When colleagues complained that they could not repeat his experiments, he admitted that neither could he because assistants on whom he had relied in the first place had made an error. His frankness in admitting his blunder put him back in the graces of fellow scientists...
...paragraph headed "Outstanding Events," Dr. Abbot did not fail to give prominent mention in last week's report to his studies of solar radiation and terrestrial weather. Long and laborious research has convinced him that world weather tends to repeat itself in 23-year cycles, which he finds not only in longtime weather records but in tree rings, Great Lakes water levels, sediment laid down by ancient glaciers, annual catches of cod and mackerel. Temperature and precipitation forecasts for 1934 in 30 U. S. cities made on the basis of the Abbot cycle turned out, he declared, two-thirds...