Word: repeatability
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...agree with R. E. Connolley, Esq., Letters, Aug. 26. Often one wonders if TIME is afraid of the Cinema business circulation curse. For instance the feeble attempt to repeat the facts when covering Cock-Eyed World in the issue...
...Right Honorable Philip Snowden calling the British Empire," began the radio announcer. Then came the querulous shrill voice of Snowden: "I want first to repeat my belief that payment of Reparations and War Debts is financially and economically impossible without inflicting injuries on the European debtors and creditors alike.* But I told them at The Hague: 'So long as there are payments we mean to get our share!' That was my bombshell. We had to adjourn for two days to enable the other delegations to recover from the shock...
...forward with the right foot, bringing the left across so that the ankles touch, the "flickerer" then stamps smartly with the right foot, executing a quick chasse (chasing the right foot out of place with the left). Another step and stamp with the left foot and one has "flickered." Repeat rapidly to fox trot time...
Laggard students who flunk and repeat courses cost more to educate than smart ones who pass everything. This is manifestly unfair in a public school-system in which each student should benefit from the same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money...
...particular technique. In his insistence on vision rather than style lay his greatness as a teacher. "Every stave in a picket fence," he wrote, "should be drawn with wit, the wit of one who sees each stave as new evidence about the fence. The staves should not repeat each other. A new fence is stiff, but it doesn't stand long before there is a movement through it, which is the trace of its life experience. The staves become notes, and as they differ the wonder of a common picket fence is revealed." Artist Henri's proteges included...