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Word: repeater (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When told she had won, Mrs. Van Etten jiggled the cigaret lighter on her car, burned her thumb. Planning to save part of the $10,000, she remarked, "I don't suppose it would be possible to repeat right away on a thing like this," went to work on a second novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Atlantic Award | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...conclusively that in all Freshman Chemistry courses a wide difference exists between the laboratory time given in the catalogue of courses and time actually necessary for careful work. We found no improvement anywhere in this respect, and feel that this is a difficulty, which should be adjusted. Therefore, we repeat the table of discrepancies, using the figures secured in our more recent study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From Text of 1939 Committee Report; Deal With Curriculum Reforms | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

...years, President Gay of the New York Market and other financial leaders have been hammering away at the surtaxes as a "potent secondary cause of stock market inflation." In a period when all tax methodology is being reexamined, it would seem imperative in the interests of stability, to repeat the capital gains taxes, and thus remove one more potential factor in a fatal inflationary move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFLATION IN WALL STREET | 5/21/1936 | See Source »

Promising to repeat its victory of last year, Lowell House now leads it nearest rival for the House All-Round Championship Trophy by 55 points. Although Winthrop as runner-up can lessen the gap with victories in their three remaining contests by about 21 points, there is no hope of dislodging the Bellboys from their top position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

Inspired by its success with the Wagner Ring cycle last year (TIME, Nov. 4), the San Francisco Opera Association made plans months ago to repeat it next season, again engaged Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, tried to get Conductor Artur Bodanzky, who had performed wonders with its ragged run-down orchestra. Last week from Vienna, Conductor Bodanzky cabled his refusal on the grounds that the San Francisco orchestra pit was too small for Wagner, that he could not do without the extra musicians whom he would have to take from Manhattan. San Francisco thereupon appointed Conductor Fritz Reiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reiner for Bodanzky | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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