Word: twice
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nothing now remains but the minor task of standing at parade rest when there is no rest, while the band marches twice the length of the field playing "We Won't Get Home Until Morning" and "Dixie." And standing at attention while the officer gazes at each man in the regiment to see if his eyes are brown when they ought to be blue, and if his feet are mates, and if he is a natural blonde...
Section meetings will also be held, commencing today, so that the theoretical side of the training will become more individual than it has been so far. These sections will be under the direction of men thoroughly familiar with the theory of military science and will be held twice daily at 8 and 1.30 o'clock, lasting an hour each. Thus, for this week, the physical drill will be reduced to six hours and greater attention paid to the knowledge of the prescribed text-books...
...bell, reviled and abhorred since forgotten time, mingles with the song of the alarm clock in a metallic discord of summons. Seven hundred men have learned that the morning and the evening are the day; and the morning has grown, like the tale of a submarine's exploits, to twice the normal size, while the evening is evanescent. Seven hundred men have acquired the habit of seeing how the great city looks before the subways to Boston are running, and the Cambridge police force, taking up the burden the stars have left off, resumes his diurnal beat. Seven hundred...
...number of students has become greater, the number of teachers has become less. The school is now giving exactly twice as much instruction as it gave 25 years ago, while a faculty only twice as large teaches three times as many students...
...broad-jump with a leap of 20 feet seven and three-quarters inches, and Bennett of Illinois, with a throw of 141 feet nine and one-half inches, placed first in the hammer-throw. White, by placing third in this event, was the only man to score twice, for Blanchard failed to win a place...