Word: repeater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that since 1928 winter sports in the U. S. have ceased to be a patrician fad and have become instead a national pastime in a class with baseball, football and golf. At Garmisch-Partenkirchen, U. S. speed skaters and bobsledders have more than a fair chance to repeat their victories of the 1932 winter games at Lake Placid. At hockey, fancy skating and skiing they are likely to be beaten. Major event of the 1936 Winter Olympics will be the ski-jump, for which grandstands have been built to seat a crowd of 80,000. Practicing at Garmisch-Partenkirchen...
History can repeat the story of the South African Kaffirs and if Haile Selassie expects his affairs to return status quo ante after the shooting dies down he is likely to receive a smart rap on the "kisser." Indeed it would appear that the Newshawk Negus had better send his "obit" to the linotyper for the coin of fate may be tails on both sides...
...rumblings at home were more political than economic. [Franklin Roosevelt] in common with all his predecessors was coming down with third-year trouble. . . . Until the courts and the people might decide to accept his reforms Franklin Roosevelt, two-time Man of the Year, could not justly hope to repeat. In the Old World in 1935, for the first time since Versailles, a group of potent statesmen exercised concerted influence over other nations than their own. . . . . . . Prime undisputed rankings were those of Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie as Underdog of the Year, and of Italy's Dictator Benito ("Just...
...student who has not received an honor grade in his College Board examination, a needlessly complicated system has been devised. Since in most prep schools the College Board in English is taken in the senior year, there is no chance for the repeating course suggested by University Hall. Even if such a repeat could be made, it would be a complete waste of time to take another prep school course in English merely because one has failed to receive an honor grade in the first. Unless a man has failed his English College Board he, too, should be allowed...
Abbot's Weather. When the National Academy met at Cambridge two years ago Charles Greeley Abbot, gaunt, assiduous secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and famed solar researcher, affirmed his belief, after long study, that weather on Earth tends to repeat itself in cycles of 23 years. Backing this up last week he showed the academicians how the 23-year cycle could be traced in the water levels of the Great Lakes, in yearly growth rings on trees, in the catch of codfish and mackerel, in deposits of clay laid down by Pleistocene glaciers. On the basis of his cycle...