Word: repeatability
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...bound volume of Punch or Life ?and you can study dispassionately the periodicity of recurrence of all our jokes. Some jokes repeat every two or three years, others (like Halley's Comet) take longer. A little luck?and you can predict unerringly just what grey-bearded quips will march from the storehouse to reappear, all reglanded and mineralaved, in The Naughtinesses of 1924. Then there are the political cartoons?stings drawn by time? bringing only a philosophic wonder to the mind. The editorials in the weeklies?"the country will be ruined should B be elected, should...
...manufacturing experts in wireless telegraphy. While the code and its translation were coming through the ether, the brain cells of the sleeping man, in a state of plastic receptivity, were absorbing the meaning of the dots and dashes and forming new associations. On waking, he was able to repeat accurately everything he had received in sleep. Psychologists say that such results are feasible because of the automatic, repetitive nature of the material conveyed to the dormant brain...
...Sirree and The 49ers. Both were melanges stirred together by the critics for the benefit of themselves and their friends. His act "in one" (all by himself) where he comes before the curtain and reads the Treasurer's report of finances, is rated as supreme burlesque. He will repeat it in the Music Box and do a bit with Frank Tinney, as well...
...clock two skeletons repeat the actions and at three o'clock three skeletons and so on till 12, when a dozen of these ghastly objects stand in a row and strike the gong in an uncanny burlesque of human actions...
Among the outstanding contenders for the high point score in today's and tomorrow's contest California, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Yale loom up large. The west coast team, which will make every effort to repeat its victories of the last two years, will consist of eleven men, nine of whom are field event entrants, the only track event men being a two miler and a high hurdler...