Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What. Just as regular newshawks make the events of yesterday live again in print, so The March of Time undertakes to recreate them on the screen by the simple process of going back to the "scene of action and getting the characters to repeat themselves in word and deed...
Shoulder Strap. Once a person has dislocated a shoulder he must ordinarily be careful not to reach too roughly, for probably one-third of dislocated shoulders repeat the accident. Dr. Toufick Nicola of Manhattan prevents the repetition by cutting part of one of the tendons of the shoulder joint (biceps tendon) and drilling a hole through the upper portion of the arm bone (humerus). Dr. Nicola then laces the cut biceps tendon through the hole and fixes it at the other end of the joint. The tendon thus effectively straps the loose joint together...
...hush spread along the bar of Jack Bleeck's saloon, adjoining the New York Herald Tribune. Lounging newshawks put down their highball glasses, stared incredulously at their boss. He was obliged to repeat himself...
...Since then he has published a distinguished tour de force (The Woman of Andros), two collections of inconsiderable, unactable playlets (The Angel That Troubled the Waters, The Long Christmas Dinner). Carpers have accused him of being a literary showoff, say he once struck a lucky posture, will never repeat it. Communist Litterateur Mike Gold started the liveliest row the staid New Republic has had in years when he attacked Thornton Wilder as a vicious example of capitalistic author. U. S. critics have shaken their heads over Wilder, wished he would come home and up-to-date instead of wandering about...
Although co-captain Peter Ward '36 is the only letterman returning this year, Coach Henry Lamar is confident that the Varsity boxing team will repeat its win of a year ago over M.I.T. in the opening meet of this season, which will take place tonight at 8 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building. There will be competition in eight classes, in accordance with the Intercollegiate regulations, including the heavyweight division...