Word: repeatability
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...touchdowns really decided the game. Although the Crimson spectators couldn't, and the Princeton team wouldn't believe they were licked, they were. And in making those two touchdowns, the team accomplished two feats it has rarely been able to do in the past and which it was to repeat several times before the closing whistle. On the first they marched 65 consecutive yards without throwing a pass, penetrating pay territory without stalling; and on the second they capitalized on a break without any fooling around...
Last year the Freshman team didn't win a game and this year they're apparently making a determined bid to repeat. It is rumored that Skip Stahley is not in favor of this idea and is even hoping to change their ideas in this respect...
...used by Catholics today, a Rosary is a string of beads to which is attached a crucifix. The size and number of the beads remind the faithful, in fingering them, to repeat prayers in "decades" or groups of ten Ave Marias (Hail Marys) preceded by a Pater Noster (Lord's Prayer) and followed by a Gloria, while meditating on the mysteries of Christ's life, death and resurrection. Usually a Catholic says five decades, or a total of some 60 brief prayers, at a time, but the true Rosary consists of 15 decades...
...quarreled publicly with Warner Brothers in 1936, threatened to give it all up and become a doctor. Now, under Grand National management, free to create new roles, he is still most effective in the kind of thing he used to do. This venture into musical drama demands neither a repeat performance nor condemnation proceedings...
...attack Chinese Shanghai, then calmly claim sanctuary in the International Settlement, using it as a base and openly landing troops there. China is a bigger, stronger country than she was five years ago and there were signs aplenty last week that she was in no mood to let Japan repeat this particular performance. To protect the International Settlement, there were in Shanghai last week...