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Word: thrice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really meant that he would like to see newspaper reporters get a better deal. But as Hearst's lawyer in the Call-Bulletin case, he considered the Guild a menace, fought it to a standstill, drove it Leftward toward trade unionism (TIME. Dec. 24). Twitted for defending bankers thrice in two years he explains: "The underdog needs friends. The bankers are so friendless now, even the politicians have courage to attack them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wirephoto War | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...mettle nowadays is the Home Office's great criminal pathologist. Thrice in a twelvemonth Sir Bernard has failed to solve spectacular murder cases: The Brighton Trunk Crime No. 1; the Brighton Trunk Crime No. 2; and the Case of the Waterloo Legs-limbs which, as Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Daily Express never tires of repeating, were found under the seat of a Waterloo railway train wrapped in a copy of the Daily Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spilsbury Freckles | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Revolution," and as holy to China as Lenin is to Russia. Between pack-jammed ranks of 1,200 neck-craning relatives, 57 couples advanced with diffidence, two couples at a time. Mayor Wu, officiating, encouraged each bride and groom to bow thrice to a statue of Dr. Sun, twice to each other and once to Mayor Wu. He then handed to each bridegroom a satisfying certificate done in multi-colored inks and the marriage was complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mass Marriages | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...real estate companies collapsed with a $20,000,000 thud. Last week Wilbur Burton Foshay was in Leavenworth Penitentiary, serving a 15-year sentence for mail fraud. In liquidating the confusion which they soon discovered, receivers tried to sell the 447-ft. Foshay Tower not once, not twice, not thrice but 26 times. Only once was there a bidder for the tallest building in Minneapolis-a jobless man who offered $1 spot cash. Last week on the 27th attempt, the Foshay Tower was finally sold to a group of bondholders for an unrevealed price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tower Sale | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...Stotesbury had two sons, James and Oliver Eaton, and a daughter Louise. Thrice married, Louise was the onetime wife of General Douglas MacArthur, is now the wife of Actor Lionel Atwill. For saying that Step-father-in-law Stotesbury pulled Republican wires to get General MacArthur promoted, the Washington Merry-Go-Round gossip column was sued for libel. The General later dropped the suit (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Merger | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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