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Word: repeatability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unheated room, offered nude photographs of her to his friends as souvenirs. Two years ago he married an extremely pretty girl of 21. When he was younger he practiced acrobatics until he became expert, haunted vaudeville theatres, performed somersaults in theatre lobbies, went home to try to repeat the stunts he had seen on the stage. Once he spent the night with a one-eyed Civil War veteran sitting on the 3-ft. hat brim of the 37-ft. statue of William Penn atop Philadelphia's City Hall. Just before dawn the oldster slipped off into the Founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: One of Eight | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Expecting to repeat their Carnival victory, the Crimson hockey team will meet the Dartmouth sextet in the Arena tomorrow evening. Although the Indians held Yale to a 4-5 score, the Harvard record is much better throughout the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN SEXTET TO FACE FAVORED CRIMSON MEN | 2/21/1935 | See Source »

...comment, first, ". . . its members are in danger of losing their sense of humor", and last, "What America needs is to be laughed at. . ." . And in the middle, you oracularly assert, "A University is an institution for detached, impartial study of the arts and sciences, contemporary and modern." I repeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "God" | 2/19/1935 | See Source »

...archeologists disagreed by centuries. Dr. Douglass examined the logs of one, reported: "The wood for this dwelling was cut in the year 1260 A. D." But what interested the Carnegie Institution most was his finding evidence of periodicity in his charts which led him to believe that weather might repeat itself in cycles, and his invention of a way to detect and analyze such cycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tree-Rings & Weather | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...ardent researcher badgered his publishers until Kreisler cabled his confession from Vienna. He wrote most of his so-called classical music 30 years ago when he felt the need of enlarging his repertoire and deduced that it would be "inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly on programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kreisler's Hoax | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

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