Word: repeatability
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Would William Woodward's Granville, favorite at 2-to-1, have speed and courage enough to repeat the victories of his sire, Gallant Fox, and Omaha, by the same sire? Or would bad racing luck-his jockey was thrown at the start of the Kentucky Derby; Bold Venture beat him by a nose in the Preakness-cost him this race too? Ten horses, bunched in a feathery cloud of dust, swung into the last turn, and Jockey Jimmy Stout on Granville made his bid. Granville caught the leader, John Hay Whitney's Mr. Bones. Then down the stretch...
Last week American Iron & Steel Institute, representing 95% of the nation's steelmasters, took full-page advertisements in some 375 newspapers to repeat its declaration of war against Labor's drive to organize its historically unorganized workers (TIME, July 6). From over 100 organizers put in the field by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee went reports and charges that the war had already begun...
...Hamilton launched out as a candidate for Governor. Opposed to him in the Republican primary was Clyde M. Reed who had the backing of Kansas liberals-William Allen White, Arthur Capper, Alfred M. Landon. Hamilton was beaten, Reed elected. Two years later Reed, with the same backers, tried to repeat. Hamilton changed tactics, became the manager of another candidate, Frank ("Chief") Haucke. This time Hamilton licked the Liberals, only to be beaten in the election by Democrat Harry Woodring...
...eyed little Sarah Palfrey Fabyan who, almost singlehanded, beat the British Wightman Cup team in 1934 by winning two matches which everyone expected her to lose. Last week, 10,000 of Mrs. Fabyan's admirers gathered in Wimbledon's uncomfortable old stands to see whether history would repeat itself. It was the second day of the Wightman Cup series. England was leading, two matches to one with four matches left...
...picked up in a London brothel only a few years before. It was commonly believed that Lady Hamilton's influence over the Queen was the result of a perverse relationship. The court was one of the most corrupt in Europe. Yet revolutionists like Fernando did little more than repeat scandals about the nobles, fearing the wild, starving, superstitious Neapolitan mobs almost as much as did the aristocrats and the Queen...