Word: repeats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize awarded last year by the Harvard CRIMSON to the best school newspaper will again be awarded this year. The prize was given last year to the Choate News for general excellence by the Senior Editors of the CRIMSON Board. This year's Senior Board has decided to repeat the award...
...will repeat," shouted Mr. Jones, "that all the crocodile tears shed over this disaster by the Government are sheer hypocrisy. . . . The visit of the Prime Minister with a tearful sop to men on whom the Government has imposed the eight-hour day was sheer effrontery...
...Jigger Shop, knew anything, he too kept silent. The Lawrence. undergraduate newspaper, printed a big headline: "DR. ABBOTT IS LAWRENCEVILLE." Joseph Espy, student school president, and Gordon Smith, vice president, performed the unprecedented act of appearing before the trustees in Manhattan. What they said they did not repeat. The school behaved itself while they were gone. Soon Dr. Abbott said: "My withdrawal [of the resignation] is definite. I am very happy. . . . They are fine boys...
...obiter dicta. Futhermore, she has decorated their halting or dissembling utterances with the impressionistic detail that filled their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep of countryside, the pattern of a garden path, the set of a face; and by taking appropriate moments to repeat or contrast these details has created a series of intimate pictures and a minor symbolism running throughout the book. At their highest, the pictures do justice to the emotional relationships of the characters...
...father out to be a foul sensualist and a foul hypocrite, and the charge was therefore a foul one! It was a deadly insult to every member of my family. A charge so foul and loathsome could only have been made by a foul-minded man, and I repeat that because of that he is a FOUL FELLOW! . . . That is my last word...