Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloomy ending to what had appeared one of the brightest seasons; for Harvard in its early races twice beat Tech and once Columbia. At the Eight-Sided Regatta at Princeton a week ago the first disappointment came as Tech gained revenge on Harvard, winning by a narrow margin after they had an easy first heat and the Crimson had been forced to go all out against Yale in their heat...
Three Elis who arrived here late yesterday morning by automobile were annoyed to say the least, but expressed confidence that the third time can never fail. Thursday or Friday--the authorities will have to think twice before making this momentous decision...
...Prontylin is a new drug which cures many cases of blood poisoning (TIME, Dec. 28). Learning of Dr. Colston's forthcoming report and keenly aware of the nation's lively interest in the social disease which infects 2,000,000 U. S. men and women a year (twice as many as syphilis does), which is responsible for an inestimaable amount of sterility, which necessitates dropping a 2% solution of silver nitrate in the eyes of every newborn child to insure against blindness, which is responsible for untold "female troubles'' and excisions of wombs. Reporter Edward Patrick...
Pointing out that world armament ex penditures, even in terms of pre-War money, were running three times as high as in 1913, twice as high as in the 19205, the report observed: "Whatever may be said for the policy of public works in times of Depression, there can be no question about the undesirability of increased government outlay once the expansion of business is in full swing, for then there is the danger that extra stimulus may produce an unhealthy boom. . . . Considering the phase that has been reached in the business cycle, this increase comes at a wrong time...
From the potential economic grief Rearmament, the report passed on to the dark future of gold. Last year's world gold production (35,000,000 oz.) was the highest on record, and output was soon expected to touch 40,000,000 oz., twice the 1929 figure. Industrial use of gold in the meantime has dropped from 20% of totalproduction to about 5%. Blamed by the B.I.S. for this decline was "a distitinct change in the jewelry fashions for women in that gold objects are less in favor and are being replaced on the one hand bycheap jewelry, which...