Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fields, or perhaps even one, would benefit by being able to skip a general education course. Advanced placement signifies that college level work has been performed in the accredited subject. Making a student take a general education course in the same area thus often causes him to repeat material already covered and prevents him from exploring more advanced subject matter. The freshman who enters with advanced placement in European History, for example, would be reviewing much duplicate material in most of the basic social science courses, and because of a shortage of time for later elective opportunities might have...
Washington sent Haiti a note charging "murder by beating . . . particularly repugnant because repeated assurances were given that Talamas would not be mistreated." Haiti's only reaction was to repeat the "heart attack" story. In the hospital, where she gave birth to a daughter as her husband was dying, Shibley Talamas' wife was at first told only that her husband was under arrest. Said she: 'That's all right, just as long as Shibley and I can be happy together...
Stronger Remedy. Rising at the fund meeting, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft showed the determination. "I have not come to discuss the exchange-rate parity of the pound," said he. "It stays at $2.80. I stated this before I left London. I repeat it now.'' One cogent reason was a stronger British trade surplus than expected, equivalent to $600 million in the year ended June 30, against previous official predictions of $350 million. Even at the risk of unemployment from the tightening of money by the Bank of England fortnight ago, said Thorneycroft, Britain will defend...
...drill sessions include a fairly heavy dose of repetition of simple, everyday foreign phrases and imitation of the pronunciation of the instructor. Much of the homework consists of memorization of conversations which the students will then repeat during class. Work on grammar is done indirectly, for the most part; syntax is learned by the example of the phrases used and repeated...
Occasionally, some of the Russians would doubt Abrams and would repeat the line they had heard on the revolution from the Hungarian delegates to the Youth Festival. To counter this, Abrams generally asked the people whether they really thought any supporter of the revolution would have been allowed among the Youth Festival delegates...