Word: repeats
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Frau Einstein will act as guard to keep the public from annoying her husband, will not permit him to go ashore in New York. The other two distinguished gentlemen are already in California. One is Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, on leave of absence from the University of Chicago to repeat his measurement of the speed of light. For measuring a metre in terms of light he received the Nobel prize in 1907. The third gentleman will be the host -Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, head of Caltech, prizewinner in 1923 for his work on electrons...
...these firms plan to do next year. ''Your faith and enthusiasm are already apparent," Hon. Frederick Arthur Tilton, third assistant postmaster general, told the convention. "Members of your organization collectively will spend during the next calendar year, 1931, $265.000,000. Of your 256 constituent companies. 121 will repeat their 1930 appropriation; 60 will increase their 1930 appropriation; only 14 will reduce, and 61 are undecided. ... It is estimated that $1.400.000.000 will be spent in all kinds of advertising...
...plump and girlish in private life; she dislikes Hollywood women because "they talk about their bracelets." She knows little English but her accent has been eliminated before the microphone because von Sternberg did not allow her to memorize her lines until she came on the set, then made her repeat them after him until she spoke them perfectly. She has no telephone in her dressing room, is happiest on grey days, has an expensive automobile, admires Joan Crawford, is married, has a baby, is going home for Christmas...
...benefit of the hundred-odd persons who were unable to obtain admission into the opening Norton lecture, which was given last Wednesday by Arthur Mayger Bind. Charles Eliot Nortion Professor of Poetry for the year 1930-31. Professor Bind has consented to repeat his address this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...holding the Wolverines for three periods and flashing a revised passing attack, played its best game of the year. The outlook for the Yale game, now less than two weeks off, becomes more cheering after having been a bit drab after the William and Mary tie. If Harvard can repeat its aerial game of last Saturday in the Yale Bowl, the now confident Bulldog will have a good deal to worry about. At any rate the game should be a repetition of last year's tilt in that Booth's running will be pitted against the Harvard passes...