Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free world countries would clearly raise the level of Western research. Canada could give us vital information on nuclear piles, while the scientists of England and Australia, given access to America's modern research equipment could complement the work done here. Moreover, the money these nations are spending to repeat what America has done years ago, could be used to advance not duplicate, atomic research...
Disgruntled freshman scholarship applicants about this time of year are wont to repeat a Harvard legend of somewhat recent vintage. The story describes a supposedly poverty stricken young man, who, after a tear jerking visit to the scholarship offices, hied himself to Mt. Auburn St. and drove off to a Country Club in his Buick convertible...
From Beirut, Jim Bell reports that he made 37 separate flights (17,525 miles) covering Middle East news in 1953, and ends his cable: "When I vacationed this year, I went to Italy by boat, repeat boat." The New Delhi bureau racked up 20,825 miles, cables Correspondent Joe David Brown, who recalls that his most memorable flight was from Srinagar, Kashmir to New Delhi in an old Dakota which was "not equipped to fly over the lofty Himalayan foothills." The course: "Dodging in between the all-too-solid looking peaks, a process which made nervous passengers think...
Konrad Adenauer's virtue is that he recognizes, and knows how to deal with, both threats to freedom. During his visit to the U.S., he pledged: "We are firmly resolved not to repeat the mistakes of the Weimar Republic, which, by its exaggerated liberalism, permitted the enemies of the country to destroy its democratic institutions. We have . . . laws to prohibit and dissolve such organizations . . . and we will apply them against radical elements of both the right and the left. There will not be another...
Bloomingtonians repeat the usual Kinsey jokes. Residents driving east on First Street point out the Kinseys' brick house (which he designed) behind a riotous growth of trees and shrubs (which he planted). Friends know him by a nickname-"Prok," a contraction of Prof. K. But on shopping streets around the town square, Dr. Kinsey passes unidentified and unnoticed...