Word: repeatability
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...owners of all cars parked on these streets will be prosecuted on first offense. Overnight parking in prohibited on all the streets of Cambridge but usually offenders are not prosecuted until they repeat the offense. This policy will be followed during the present drive...
...history tries to repeat itself, and human nature indicates that it will try, those who would resist the tendency can rely only on President Roosevelt. Perhaps he foresees such an emergency, since he intends to have the Congressional measures passed bestowing upon him control over the inflation program. To prevent an excessive expansion of the currency, doubtless in the face of public opinion, would conform to the aggressiveness which President Roosevelt has shown since his inauguration...
...Farm Board. John Planter, who normally raises 90 bales of cotton, steps up and promises to raise only 60 this year. Secretary Wallace gives him an option on 30 bales of Government cotton at 6? per lb., the current market price. When hundreds of thousands of John Planters repeat this process, cotton demand starts to exceed cotton supply and prices (in theory) spurt up to 8? or 10? or 12? per lb. Next autumn John Planter orders Secretary Wallace to sell his option cotton, makes a tidy profit to compensate him for the 30 bales he never raised...
...second objection is, on the whole, more respectable. Should Cambridge do the expected and repeat its ordinance, dispensing beer would still necessitate a license, and there might be fears that the innovation would not justify itself financially. But in the past the authorities were able to cope with both features, and after the legalization of beer the situation should not be substantially different. Many corporations of smaller stature than the University propose to become licensed, and the management which accumulated a surplus in the House dining halls should be equal to the problem of selling beer profitably. Now that...
...spring of their freshman year. In spite of the fact that each year complaints are made of the uselessness of the Freshman Advisers, the incoming Freshman hears nothing of the matter, and innocently trots about the Yard and the House seeking appointments with strange tutors, who will repeat the same message to each man on the glories of his field, and finally dashes to his "adviser" to sign a study card. Entirely apart from the student's own preference, and the suggestions his family will offer, the College makes no attempt to offer the information which is so necessary...