Word: repeater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a great desire concealed beneath a formal note, the ladies step forward anxious to debate Harvard. Wellesley challenges the University to a debate and sets a date, December 1. Vassar also is anxious to repeat last year's program and debate the Freshmen. Freshmen, however, are scorned by Wellesley, which demands a debate with a team from the college at large. It remains for the Debating Council to decide whether or not these invitations will be accepted. The fate of both debates will be settled at a meeting of the Council on Monday night...
...National Woman's Party, having held a pageant representing the birth of the equal rights movement on the 75th anniversary of the latter as Seneca Falls, N. Y., is to repeat that pageant in the various sections of the country. The object of the celebrations is to promote the passage of the Party's "Absolute Equality" Amendment to the Constitution. The first repetition of the pageant was held in the Garden of the Gods at Colorado Springs, Colo...
...discover that there is no sure road to success and satisfaction at Harvard, that the University does not demand conformity in dress or habits or speech, that you are free within the bounds of law and decency to say and do as you wish, and that you are, to repeat a truism, in a world in little; so cherish your freedom and make your decisions. Harvard offers you all kinds of advice; it is characteristic of the College you are attending that you must decide for yourself what to accept and what to reject...
...bound volume of Punch or Life ?and you can study dispassionately the periodicity of recurrence of all our jokes. Some jokes repeat every two or three years, others (like Halley's Comet) take longer. A little luck?and you can predict unerringly just what grey-bearded quips will march from the storehouse to reappear, all reglanded and mineralaved, in The Naughtinesses of 1924. Then there are the political cartoons?stings drawn by time? bringing only a philosophic wonder to the mind. The editorials in the weeklies?"the country will be ruined should B be elected, should...
...manufacturing experts in wireless telegraphy. While the code and its translation were coming through the ether, the brain cells of the sleeping man, in a state of plastic receptivity, were absorbing the meaning of the dots and dashes and forming new associations. On waking, he was able to repeat accurately everything he had received in sleep. Psychologists say that such results are feasible because of the automatic, repetitive nature of the material conveyed to the dormant brain...