Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year's winner, Stanford, can hardly be expected to repeat, especially since latest word from the Coast indicates that Al Blackman, former Exeter boy, who followed Horace Greeley's advice, will be unable to compete this year because of a leg injury. Blackman was indispensable to the Cards last year, winning the 400 meter and taking an unexpected third in the 200. However Stanford should fight it out with California for second place. The certain winner appears at this time to be the irresistible Trojans from Southern California...
...burlesquing William Randolph Hearst, but elsewhere in the land Red scares were no laughing matter. In Massachusetts Governor Curley signed a bill requiring every public school teacher to lead her class in a weekly salute to the flag. In Illinois a legislative committee heard Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen repeat his charges that the University of Chicago turned his buxom niece Lucille Norton into a Communist. California's legislature, angered by 18 University of California professors who ventured to protest its anti-radical bill, toyed with another bill which would bring U. of C. to heel by dismissing its Board...
...need not repeat to you that the Federal Reserve Bank no more belongs to the people of the United States than does the Federal laundry or the Federal barber shop...
...with the issue of political control, he weakened his case. A new method of choosing the members of the Federal Reserve Board, and the assurance of their political independence, such as is suggested by Walter Lippmann, would make the present bill extremely good. Certainly we do not want to repeat the experiences in the Reserve System during the recent boom and present depression...
...next to godly professor thereupon stripped under the Sinaitic sun, and began to pour water over himself, while crowds of little native children, gathering to get a ringside view of this naked Brobdingnagian, began to point at him and repeat something in Arabic over and over again. No mean linguist, the professor realized to his shame that they were crying, "Look! He hasn't got any! Look! He hasn't got any!" This had never happened before, and our hero blushed a deep crimson, and kept on washing. "All giants," an unwashed monk later told him, "according to the local...