Word: repeatability
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...holds its six legs. A flea which always grasps one leg with another will make a ball balancer. One which waves its legs back and forth rapidly makes a chariot racer. Trainers prod the insects with tiny whips when they make mistakes, force them to repeat their tricks. An obdurate flea which refuses to move is prodded into activity, worked harder than the rest. The human flea lives mostly in Europe. Professor Heckler says he obtains his supply from the boat stewards of European liners, who find them while making beds. Greatest authority on fleas in the world is Lionel...
...Paris, shaggy-browed Aristide Briand immediately sent for German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch, talked to him like an uncle, sent him packing to Berlin to repeat B'rer Briand's remarks to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. White-chinned ex-President Raymond Poincaré, who, like ex-President Coolidge, is temporarily a newspaper columnist, wrote with spluttering...
...without the Supreme Court's recommendation, on his own initiative. But because the facts in the two cases are so intertwined, Governor Young was being guided largely by the Supreme Court's hearing in the Billings case. Last week he summoned MacDonald to Sacramento to hear him repeat his recantation...
...remedy: He defended Research, cited cases where it has greatly aided teaching methods: 1) At the University of Buffalo, students about to be dismissed for failure were found to have little knowledge of how to study; properly coached, they qualified; 2) History in college was found to repeat 22.8% of high school history. "One historian has discovered that pupils in the ordinary American public schools encounter Christopher Columbus 39 times before they are allowed to escape...
...impossible to say anything out of the ordinary about this book. That is a confession which ought to damn it from the start. In reviewing so many of these profound studies of adolescence it has become irksome to repeat the only catch words which can be repeated--realism, frankness, and so on. It has finally dawned upon me that the story of a man's emotional strivings and strugglings are bound to be all these things. They make good reading but do not last, for any other true story, confession, or what you will, has the same appeal...