Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamilton launched out as a candidate for Governor. Opposed to him in the Republican primary was Clyde M. Reed who had the backing of Kansas liberals-William Allen White, Arthur Capper, Alfred M. Landon. Hamilton was beaten, Reed elected. Two years later Reed, with the same backers, tried to repeat. Hamilton changed tactics, became the manager of another candidate, Frank ("Chief") Haucke. This time Hamilton licked the Liberals, only to be beaten in the election by Democrat Harry Woodring...
...eyed little Sarah Palfrey Fabyan who, almost singlehanded, beat the British Wightman Cup team in 1934 by winning two matches which everyone expected her to lose. Last week, 10,000 of Mrs. Fabyan's admirers gathered in Wimbledon's uncomfortable old stands to see whether history would repeat itself. It was the second day of the Wightman Cup series. England was leading, two matches to one with four matches left...
...picked up in a London brothel only a few years before. It was commonly believed that Lady Hamilton's influence over the Queen was the result of a perverse relationship. The court was one of the most corrupt in Europe. Yet revolutionists like Fernando did little more than repeat scandals about the nobles, fearing the wild, starving, superstitious Neapolitan mobs almost as much as did the aristocrats and the Queen...
...last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Harry Blotner, young Boston stomach specialist, published the first proof that a heavy drinker does not digest his food. Anyone can repeat in his kitchen or parlor the experiment by which Dr. Blotner arrived at his conclusion...
...Marlen Pew gave his own ideas on what a newspaper should be: "Publish more news, more expertly written. . . . Make every word count, have some decent respect for the time of the reader, and publish more and better news pictures and cartoons. . . . Tell a common story and quit-do not repeat the facts three times, in introduction, description and interview. ... Be natural, direct, wholesome, alert. Work for the readers, busy people who are depending on you to tell them 'what's doing.' See the beauty in life as well as the horror. Tell it all and tell...