Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last April he went back to Europe. In Rome he conducted Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and was cheered. In Milan's La Scala he was such a success that a repeat concert was scheduled. In Paris he earned bravos with the rarely performed Second Symphony of Bruckner. Last week before an international audience in the Swiss mountain resort of Interlaken, Otto Klemperer conducted the great old 120-piece Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...
...controlled by setting a code number in the machine before leaving. When you call from outside, after the Ipsophone has announced itself, you say firmly: "Hello, hello." The Ipsophone then switches to another track and slowly reels off a series of numbers; after each number in the code you repeat, "Hello, hello." If you get the combination right, the Ipsophone plays back the messages; if not, it emits a derisive busy signal. After hearing all the messages, you wait for a sign-off buzz, then pronounce, "Erase, Erase," and the record is wiped clean...
Ghostlike Baruna, the favorite to repeat her 1938 victory, sprang a bad leak half way to Bermuda, but kept her pumps going and got all possible good out of her big Genoa jib. She got to Bermuda first (in 5 days, 3 minutes) but didn't win. By the time all the intricate mathematics of handicaps had been worked out, the prize went to the blue-hulled, 57-ft. sloop Gesture, carrying the first suit of nylon sails ever used in a big ocean race. Gesture had been the third to finish. Her skipper: square-jawed Howard Fuller, president...
Businessmen, still remembering the sad inventory crisis of 1920, may not repeat their speculative errors. The productive capacity of the nation is so much greater now than in 1920 that some shortages may turn into surpluses overnight...
...steady Yugoslavs, winners of the last European zone playoffs in 1939, became a good bet to repeat next week in the finals against steady Sweden. Other over-the-border tennis...