Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pakistan or War? Last week London announced that three Cabinet ministers-Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade-would go to India to repeat and perhaps to better Cripps's 1942 efforts to reach an agreement with Hindus and Moslems on dominion status for India...
Everybody else was talking about the United Nations' new home in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), so why not architects? Last week gallerygoers at Manhattan's up-to-the-minute Museum of Modern Art were confronted with outsize placards: MUST WE REPEAT THE GENEVA FIASCO? On the wall were architectural drawings that had been entered in the international competition in 1927 for a Geneva palace for the old League of Nations. Above them was an ominous legend: "The Competition Failed. The Building Failed. The League Failed...
Testaments of Youth Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 76, philosophic champion of self-discipline and nonviolence, got fed up with the violently undisciplined enthusiasm of his Indian followers: it kept him awake. On a tour through India they cheered him at every train stop. Cried he: "I cannot repeat this performance for many days, and hope to live to the age of 125"-the age he thought he might reach before he saw "the consummation of my ideas." Observed the ascetic, sleepless, not unhumorous Mahatma: "To inculcate perfect discipline and non-violence among 400 million is no joke...
...church members will rise and repeat: "We the congregation ... do hereby ordain...
Scarlet Street (Diana Productions-Universal) is an ambitious melodrama bristling with fine directorial touches and expert acting. Its trouble is its painfully obvious story. Producer-Director Fritz Lang, frankly trying to repeat the success he had with The Woman in the Window, has used all the stock props of rough, tough melodrama in his new thriller. There is the sneering, dame-slapping heel of a hero (Dan Duryea), the bad girl (Joan Bennett) who asks to be slapped around and seems to enjoy it, and the frightened, henpecked little middle-aged cashier (Edward G. Robinson) with a simple-minded...