Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Park Avenue vacant lot neatly prettied and pedestaled, Manhattan's lively Sculptors' Guild turned out to haul, hoist and hope for vernal weather. Occasion: a repeat performance this week of its smash-hit outdoor show (TIME, April...
Eager to see Stagehand, No. i money winner of 1938, repeat his performance of the fortnight before, when he snatched the McLennan Handicap from Warren Wright's promising Bull Lea in a spectacular stretch finish, 21,000 racing addicts jam-packed the Park-from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer...
Taking the cue for all it was worth, M. Daladier replied: "Do I need to repeat to you this evening, my American friends, that France will never yield to either the menace of force or the blackmail of guile? . . . For us peace and liberty are inseparable boons. We [the U. S., France] do not need to be bound by texts, nor by pledges, to strive together for what we believe to be the good of humanity. We do not need to make contracts with each other...
This is fine. Anybody could have said it once; it takes a poet to repeat (cf. Poe's Ulalume, Swinburne's A Match, and many others). I knew your mad prose pace would get you; that somebody would rebel. Congratulations on a more leisurely tempo! The "Curt" of "Curt, Clear, Complete" has been dealt a mortal blow. Enter now the style rococo and redundant...
Optimistic, but not in the least overconfident, are the words which express the feelings of Coach Wes Fesler and his Varsity cagers who are invading the Tiger's lair at Princeton tonight, hoping to repeat their "Once Over Lightly" (40 to 39) triumph of the previous meeting of the two teams in Cambridge...