Word: repeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stocky Pietro Mascagni tried 14 times to repeat his success. (Shrewish Signora Mascagni, a peasant girl wrapped in furs on the profits of Cavalleria, jealously selected the casts of all 15). But the audiences that cheered and wept over Cavalleria booed and hissed its pedantic successors...
Yesterday the Varsity hopped down Falmouth to try for a repeat performance on the 4 to 0 whitewash that began summer season. Saturday it will have second go with Holey Cross, this time at Worcester, trying to recapture scalp from the Crusader collection...
...personage than China's Premier T. V. Soong, returning to Chungking from Moscow, predicted that the Japs would quit this year or in early 1946. On the other hand, rumors of imminent peace which gushed from various world capitals caused top side Army and Navy figures to repeat their warnings that the war would probably run until...
...hours behind her, the Blitzen was becalmed off Bob-Lo Island, an exasperating 19 miles from the finish line. When she finally eased across the line, her winning time-48 hours, 16 min. -set a record for the 21-year-old Port Huron-to-Mackinac race. It was a repeat performance for the Blitzen, which won last year's race over smooth water...
Back in the Detroit lineup last week, after four years in the Army, big Hank Greenberg needed just four chances at bat to get his eye in. On the fifth try, he powdered a 375-ft. homer into his favorite left-field stand. With that wallop (and a repeat three days later), ex-Captain Greenberg: 1) began earning his $55,000-a-year salary, baseball's highest (for 60 days at least his pay remains at the 1941 rate); 2) made the front-running Tigers odds-on to win the American League pennant; 3) gave a psychological lift...