Word: twice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michigan's Twice Three...
...churchgoer who put 10? into the collection plate each and every Sunday of last year may warm his piety at the comforting thought that he was twice as generous as the average churchgoer. Authority for the fact that 5? is the average contribution, is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, which published figures last week. The most generous State: New Jersey, 12.2? per churchgoer per Sunday. Virginia, the Carolinas, Washington and eleven other States averaged less than...
...question of whether man shall ever be able to reproduce living light, which is at least twice as efficient as best artificial light, becomes the question whether chemists will ever be able to synthesize the protein luciferin. Dr. Harvey thought that "that will come in the future. We now synthesize fats, sugars, and some of the polypetides." Luciferin seems to be either a peptone or a proteose...
...glider is yanked into a 10 to 15 m. p. h. wind, which supplies lift. Thereafter it is the pilot's job to jockey his plane upon the air currents ascending over the rolling terrain. Air usually rises to twice the height of an obstruction. If the pilot can get above a cloud he has an easy time. Wind always rushes up over the edge of a cloud. And the up-moving air is what the glider pilot wants...
Piquant, such "political incompatibility" would plausibly explain why "Nito" prefers to play the Duce alone in Rome, only visiting his wife in Milan or at his farm in Forli twice or thrice a year...