Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slow poke myself. It was the last of the ninth and New York was leading 4-to-3. Two men were out and there were runners on second and third. A week before I'd busted up a game with a lucky homer and folks thought I could repeat...
...writer, a higher tribute to Powys the teacher. "Let no one suppose," says Brooks, "that Llewelyn Powys is merely another nature-writer, eloquent, observant and persuasive. He has something to say to this age of despair and darkness, an age in which writers in all the tongues of Babel repeat that life is futile and worse than nothing...
Kirkland, last year's champion has a good chance to repeat. Whitney Howland is stroking the first boat, with Ben Kirkland (no relation)at seven, Larry Arnold at six, Lucien Wulsin at five, Fred Armstrong at four, Brainard at 3, Bob Tilney at 2, Jack Tynan in the bow, and Bill Kemp...
...justification of the cost of his ammunition the President wrote: "Let us unanimously recognize the fact that the Federal debt, whether it be twenty-five billions or forty billions, can only be paid if the nation obtains a vastly increased citizen income. I repeat that if this citizen income can be raised (from an estimated fifty-six billion this Year) to eighty billion dollars a year the National Government and the overwhelming majority of State and local governments will be 'out of the red.' " And the President added: "Business must help. I am sure business will help...
...together with the comments of such advisers as Jesse Jones, Henry Morgenthau, J. J. Pelley, William O. Douglas, most of whom gave it less than complete approval. As his own comment, the President took occasion to call certain functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission "in all probability unconstitutional," to repeat his opposition to Government ownership of the roads, to agree that from a long-range point of view consolidation of all U. S. transport under one body would be advisable. But on the immediate question of how the hard-pressed roads are to keep on meeting pay rolls and fixed...