Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Locksmith Courtney said that he had descended to the wreck in a new kind of duralumin diving suit which .combines flexibility with pressure resistance, had opened one safe from which was recovered ?15,000 in gold. Another dive, he related, had provided an experience he would not care to repeat. He and a companion were caught alongside the jagged wreckage by a strong tide. He was helpless in the dark green water for 40 min. Undertow bashed him against sharp steel, so dented his duralumin suit that twelve stitches had to be taken in his side when he was rescued...
...element of force. Government compulsion, becomes necessary. . . . Our continued decline in employment and purchasing power is leading us into state socialism or complete anarchy." General Electric's Gerard Swope (who. over a year ago. urged industry to do what it may now be forced to do) said: "I repeat that if industry does not sec its opportunity [to regulate itself] ... it will be done from without. The alternative, therefore, is not shall it be done, but by whom shall it be done...
...follow, the expert Wagnerian performers who saved the past season from out & out disaster will repeat their acts. Paunchy Tenor Paul Althouse, who made a Metropolitan debut 20 years ago before he was artistically mature, will rejoin the company. Last week as soon as another season was assured, Cyrena Van Gordon, onetime Chicago Opera contralto, was engaged for the Metropolitan. So was Baritone John Charles Thomas, the Pennsylvania Methodist Minister's son who after an apprenticeship in musical comedy Maytime, Apple Blossoms) has developed one of the smoothest baritone voices...
...owners of all cars parked on these streets will be prosecuted on first offense. Overnight parking in prohibited on all the streets of Cambridge but usually offenders are not prosecuted until they repeat the offense. This policy will be followed during the present drive...
...history tries to repeat itself, and human nature indicates that it will try, those who would resist the tendency can rely only on President Roosevelt. Perhaps he foresees such an emergency, since he intends to have the Congressional measures passed bestowing upon him control over the inflation program. To prevent an excessive expansion of the currency, doubtless in the face of public opinion, would conform to the aggressiveness which President Roosevelt has shown since his inauguration...