Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposing out solution," Harrington said, "we have assumed first that present conditions are intolerable, and secondly that it is impossible to repeat to the Eighteenth Amendment. Repeat requires a two-thirds majority in each of the legislatures of 36 of the 48 states plus of two-thirds majority in both house of the federal congress. It has been calculated that one thirty-fifth of the population of the United States could prevent repeal. Oar third assumption is that something should be done about the situations...
...meet, to be held this year in the Stadium on May 30 and 31. Representative from all the larger eastern colleges are expected to participate while teams form Stanford, the University of California, and the University of Southern California will make the transcontinental trek in an attempt to repeat their former victories...
...many people in the U. S. have ever heard of Georges Gurdjieff. Not many who have heard of him could repeat more than garbled rumors. Not many of those who know him know what to make of him. He is the strange head of a strange practical religion. Until two years ago his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man was established in Fontainebleau, France. Then, an atrocious automobilist, he had an accident, closed the Institute. His subsequent movements have been obscure; always he has shunned publicity. Last week the few Manhattanites who knew he was in town gathered...
...meeting of the eight returning letter men. Newhart is five feet ten inches tall, and weighs 175 pounds. At the recent Eastern Intercollegiate Championships held at Technology he wrestled his way to victory in the 175-pound class, a performance which he bids fair to repeat in the National Intercollegiate Championships, to be held next week. Newhart has maintained an unstained record for the entire season...
Emil St. Godard had won The Pas Dog Derby every year for five years, and this year in the eastern races he showed so well that he seemed sure to repeat. In The Pas race last week, he was five minutes ahead at the turn at the Flin Flon Mine, 100 miles out. St. Godard's huskies weakened on the home stretch. A dog which had been lurching in the traces for a mile fell over without stumbling, its legs suddenly helpless. After looking it over St. Godard took its strap off and put it on the sled. Through...