Word: repeatedly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ought surely to repeat our former victories and win several others. The mile run is especially worth the effort, as we have men who seem capable of success in this event if trained and pushed for it. In several other events we shall probably bring out some strong contestants, whose success in any one instance would prove gratifying. '85 is an unknown factor as yet in these calculations, and all look to her with the greatest interest in the coming in-door athletic games this month, and upon the training field when spring opens...
...acknowledge a shiver when we hear a presumably pure woman speak familiarly the name of Oscar Wilde. We know that there may be men in the company who will wonder whether she has read his foulest story ever put into English verse. Delicate lips do not like to repeat the name of a certain innocent but foulscented beast. Much more may they avoid the name of the author of `Charmides...
...college of the progressive tendencies of Harvard should be the last to repeat the old stock complaint against college journals, that they are principally fault-finders and nurses of discontent. The better class of such papers certainly studiously endeavor to abstain from all complaining that is not likely to lead to anything better than mere fault-finding. Can it not fairly be said that the greater proportion of their criticisms on local matters have for their sole object to secure reform and to raise the status of Alma Mater? Yet their aims are, more often than not, misconceived everywhere outside...
...that in him is plainly exaggerated and absurd, - which is by no means little. For it is only in this way that the public is permitted to defend itself against the cant of his sentiment and the sophistry of his pretence. As a matter of taste (and we but repeat the opinions of other judges who are more competent to decide), we by no means believe him to be a man of "fine poetic achievement," any more than of "grand poetic promise." One who considers the vast amount of mediocre and passable poetry daily ground out by the periodical press...
...Faust" at sight. Still they did struggle through part of the first scene, much to the surprise of Prof. Dippold, who expected they could do nothing with it. In fact, he did not believe second-year German scholars could understand him at all, but thought he should have to repeat all he said several times, retarding the tempo, and finally translate the whole...