Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Stern's autobiographical scheme was also a psychological experiment. She decided to start from a casually selected object, let subconscious association's artful aid carry her whither it would; repeat the process twice, to the point where all three random lines met - "and see then whether the space they enclose remains a vacuum, or whether anything of interest, any personal King Charles's Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example...
Strategically choosing St. Patrick's Day when the greater number of Boston's finest will be concentrated in South Boston, these students, it is said, will make a determined effort to repeat the riot at Charlestown...
This from one whose capital is increasing $2,000 per day or thereabouts struck the merriest possible note in Scotland. Cheerfully the King, in sleek long coat and bowler, set out to repeat in Glasgow slums the sort of famed house-to-house tour he made as Edward of Wales through the bleak, starveling Welsh collieries and "Depressed Areas...
...result of this, Mr. Conant, accompanied by Mr. Green, will rush to the Boston broadcasting rooms of station WBZ immediately after the meeting in Cambridge, and Mr. Conant will be forced to repeat his address at 10 o'clock for the benefit of the radio audience. It will be relayed over WJZ, New York, and a nation-wide network...
While it is entirely legitimate for the H.A.A. to charge admission for intramural games with Yale, it would be a mistake to repeat last night's arrangement. The House basketball season was closed in a game preliminary to the Olympic elimination trial between Providence and Springfield. It is obvious that there must have been a considerable number of students who would have liked to witness the climax of Intra-House play but who had no desire to see the other event...