Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy - let me repeat it - will never take the initiative of starting a war. Italy needs peace; Fascism desires to secure for the Italian people in co-operation with all other peoples of the world a future of prosperity and peace...
...Albert Einstein told newsgatherers in Pasadena that he was anxious to talk to Mt. Wilson astronomers about their observations of the red shift. At the same time in Cleveland, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Astronomical Observatory, reported some data about the expanding universe which he expects to repeat later to Dr. Einstein. Harvard astronomers have just completed a survey of one-tenth of the sky in an attempt to extend Man's knowledge of the universe. Dr. Shapley found 18,000 new galaxies, 1,900 new variable stars. He noticed that stars in space are scattered non-uniformly...
...menace, because we cannot imagine the existence of a murderous and suicidal state desiring to let loose a new war while the world is still feeling the consequences of the World War." ("Should we unfortunately become certain that such a state exists," the Pope added, "we should repeat the prayer of the Scriptures, Dissipa gentes quae bella volunt."*) Regenerators. "[Pray] for all who suffer for the profession and defense of the faith as in Mexico, Russia and Siberia, preparing by their sufferings the regeneration of those countries." He wished prayers for Roman Catholic missionaries and special prayers for those missionaries...
...these firms plan to do next year. ''Your faith and enthusiasm are already apparent," Hon. Frederick Arthur Tilton, third assistant postmaster general, told the convention. "Members of your organization collectively will spend during the next calendar year, 1931, $265.000,000. Of your 256 constituent companies. 121 will repeat their 1930 appropriation; 60 will increase their 1930 appropriation; only 14 will reduce, and 61 are undecided. ... It is estimated that $1.400.000.000 will be spent in all kinds of advertising...
...plump and girlish in private life; she dislikes Hollywood women because "they talk about their bracelets." She knows little English but her accent has been eliminated before the microphone because von Sternberg did not allow her to memorize her lines until she came on the set, then made her repeat them after him until she spoke them perfectly. She has no telephone in her dressing room, is happiest on grey days, has an expensive automobile, admires Joan Crawford, is married, has a baby, is going home for Christmas...