Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forward with the right foot, bringing the left across so that the ankles touch, the "flickerer" then stamps smartly with the right foot, executing a quick chasse (chasing the right foot out of place with the left). Another step and stamp with the left foot and one has "flickered." Repeat rapidly to fox trot time...
Laggard students who flunk and repeat courses cost more to educate than smart ones who pass everything. This is manifestly unfair in a public school-system in which each student should benefit from the same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money...
...particular technique. In his insistence on vision rather than style lay his greatness as a teacher. "Every stave in a picket fence," he wrote, "should be drawn with wit, the wit of one who sees each stave as new evidence about the fence. The staves should not repeat each other. A new fence is stiff, but it doesn't stand long before there is a movement through it, which is the trace of its life experience. The staves become notes, and as they differ the wonder of a common picket fence is revealed." Artist Henri's proteges included...
...whole solemn rigmarole of tariff-making was started over again, as if action by the House had never been taken. Witnesses began marching forward to repeat to the Senators the identical arguments for special favors they had made last winter before the House Ways & Means Com- mittee. The same disputed items-cattle, meat, hides, flaxseed, fresh vegetables, dairy products, sugar, shoes, cement, shingles-were the items for discussion...
Publisher Copley's only recourse then was the Press, to "minimize as far as possible" damage "which can never be repaired." Through newsgatherers he challenged Senator Norris to come out from behind Senatorial immunity and repeat his charges. "If he will state this outside the Senate, I will bring him promptly before a Court of Justice." Then, describing himself as an "oldfashioned American citizen," he continued...