Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems beside the point and decidedly counter to TIME'S aims and standing ... to repeat and enlarge on a thing like this-"Thaw Perennial" [TIME, June 18]-when so many more interesting and profitable incidents are passed over or forgotten entirely. Why-oh why-should decent people be reminded continually of this shameful affair...
...many boy-&-girl hoboes are wandering the U. S. today Author Minehan does not attempt to estimate. The overwhelming majority of the 500-odd cases he collected left home because of hard times. They travel in small gangs, repeat the same routes, rarely get more than 500 miles from their starting place. The girls are sometimes on their own, oftener are common to the gang or temporarily faithful to one boy. For their living they depend on panhandling, petty thievery, breadlines...
Business Prophecy. There are two fundamental ways of looking at the future of business: 1) it is all a matter of chance; 2) what has happened is apt to recur. Economist Irving Fisher of Yale, an advocate of prophecy in business, contends that prosperity and depression repeat with mathematical regularity. Against this contention argued Mathematician Edwin Bidwell Wilson of Harvard. "An economist can find periods in anything if he uses the right system. But those periods would be but figments of the imagination." To prove his point Professor Wilson showed that an array of business statistics which displayed periodicity also...
...Dean Robert Kilburn Root announced that, beginning next autumn, Princeton will have a "hospital for the illiterate," listed in the catalog as "Corrective English." There the freshman whose back is stronger than his syntax will spend eight weeks. If still unable to write a "decent English sentence," he will repeat the course in second term. There will be two more chances in sophomore year. If he persists in failure, the halls of Princeton will see him no more...
...holder of the National Collegiate backstroke championship and the world's record for the 300-yard medley, will be the feature for the evening. M. Victor Leventritt '35 in the breaststroke, and George C. Scott, Jr. '34 in the 50-yard freestyle, mainstays of the Harvard team, hope to repeat the success they had against Yale. In the relay the All New England team will use Scott and Herbert M. Howe '34 to bolster their hopes...