Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a telephone operator refuses to give out the time, when she refuses even to repeat the number given her, but, instead, chirps pertly, "Thank you"-is she giving "good service...
...level or usage in England. I repeat, I am a British citizen and I have no prejudice either way, but I trust that none of your readers will regard the grotesque effusion of Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse as representative of English culture, English critcism or English sentiment. FRANK VINCENT WADDY...
...Warfield, however, she does not prove her case. She says with the satiric generalization which has become popular in the last decade, that the typical "college woman." If she hered; and, largely as a result of this veneer, thin but adequate, of culture; learns a few catch phrases to repeat whenever a subject is mentioned about which educated persons are supposed to be informed; and, largely as a result of this veneer comes out into the world with a certain amount of poiso. The wise woman, says Miss Warfield, is she who makes a lucky marriage and has so good...
...sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle is a sedative drug. . . . Morphine is a good pain reliever, but a poor sleep maker. . . . The newer synthetics [drugs] have no relation to morphine; they have none of that kick that makes the taker wish to repeat the experience. . . ."?Walter C. Alvarez of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn...
...Blue weight tossers, are both possible scorers in the shot put. Lamberg who is engaged in his first year of intercollegiate competition this spring, got the 16 pound ball out over 47 feet in the Cornell meet two weeks ago which should be good enough if he can repeat the effort this week for at least a third or fourth. Wright in the hammer throw, with a record of 161 feet to his credit, and Kanrich in the discus are other prominent Penn contenders in the weight events. In Baxter, Penn has a high jumper who has been over...