Word: repeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the feminine eight has practiced only four times together this season, they are firmly convinced that they will not repeat last year's flasco when one of the plump oar-pushers stuck her foot through the shell. In fact, the girls aren't going to use a shell this year, but a shell-barge...
Though at the start of the race it speared as if the Varsity would repeat its strong performance of the previous Saturday, the crowds along the river bank and on the two river bridges were doomed to disappointment. Breaking bell, the eight won and held the lead for three eighths of a mile, but fell behind at the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, never to be in the race again. The last mile and three-eights were all Tech and Cornell...
...Japanese Navy Ministry must have known that it could not repeat the air blow in sufficient strength. But that night a small Japanese task force built around the battleship Yamato-a light cruiser, a smaller light cruiser and nine destroyers-was permitted to steam out of the Inland Sea, glide through the dark along Kyushu's coasts and turn into the East China Sea on its mission toward almost certain destruction...
This afternoon the Glee Club will travel to New York to give a repeat performance of Randall Thompson's "Testament of Freedom" at Carnegie Hall tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Also included on the program, which was first performed at Symphony Hall in Boston, will be Dmitri Shostakovich's Eight Symphony...
...still believed to be dead, it is he who urges the heartbroken young woman to go on the air with a piece of made-up stiff-upper-lipping for bereft American womanhood ("You don't have to," he insists comfortingly); and it is he who urges her to repeat it, next day ("You don't have to," he again tells his employe) for the newsreels. When the hero returns alive, horribly embarrassed because he hardly knows the poor girl, it is the boss again who practically kidnaps America's most beloved couple and gives them...