Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale has not lost heavily by graduation, and on paper must be favored to repeat in the Ivy League, while B.C. will be powerful in the Greater Boston loop...
Poised and confident as she had been at Cortina, Tenley skated out to repeat her Olympic routine. In her gold wool jersey, she danced across the ice to the music of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Satisfied with her performance, she said: "If that doesn...
...varsity could pull an upset if it wins the relays, the last events. The varsity mile relay team has defeated both Yale and Princeton twice this year. Yale, however, won the two-mile relay when the three teams met in the Knights of Columbus meet and a repeat victory may enable the Elis to squeeze the Crimson into second place in the meet...
...expression is probably the most important single criterion. The written word has in this respect always been at a disadvantage when compared with the oral epic. Writers, unlike bards, can test neither the effectiveness of their subject matter nor its mode of expression, for they lack the opportunity to repeat, modify, and retest their work...
...estimated 54 million people. Said Sullivan, on hearing the bad news: "NBC won a Pyrrhic victory. It took 25 stars to beat me." This week, with NBC once again throwing comedy into the Sunday-at-8 spot, Sullivan could feel confident that the network would not soon repeat its coup of tempting so many viewers to look at so many stars in so indifferent a show...