Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What bustle and excitement is a parade! It keeps sewing circles and church socials chattering for weeks before and days afterwards. It makes Pop misplace his glasses just fifteen minutes before the first band swings past Lexcord Green; Sally must have her face washed twice as a double protection against dirt; and Ma thinks, as the car turns the corner, that she didn't close the icebox door. For the neighbors know how long all the bands between Framingham and Lowell have been eking practice sounds out of trumpets, drums, bass horns, and still worse horns. Uniforms have been brushed...
...PAST TWO." I TRUST TIME WILL PRINT THE FACT THAT IN 1935, ON THE GREAT LAKES AND HIGH SEAS 355 OF 411,825 PASSENGERS ON AMERICAN MERCHANT VESSELS LOST THEIR LIVES. IN THE SAME YEAR COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES IN THE U. S. A. CARRIED MORE THAN TWICE AS MANY PASSENGERS-746,946 WITH FATALITIES TO 15 PASSENGERS AND AND 14 CREW AND ONE LOST ON GROUND, AN ADVANTAGE OF 22 TO 1 IN FAVOR OF AIRLINE TRAVEL DESPITE THE FALSE IMPRESSION PEOPLE MAY HAVE GAINED FROM TIME'S PLAYING UP OF AIRLINE MISHAPS...
...from Eppelsheim who had been taken by their parents to the U. S. with eight other children before the Civil War. Vice President Hart recounted last week how the twelve big & little Harts, upon debarking in Manhattan after a 60-day crossing in a sailing vessel which caught fire twice, marched into the first restaurant they spotted. Finding the only meat available was ham, they all marched out again...
...Twice gassed and wounded, he was given vocational training by the Veterans Bureau after the War, trying successively art, salesmanship, photography, journalism. On the Omaha World-Herald, his dark skin, long, sharp nose, thinning hair and bespectacled seriousness earned him the nickname "Gandhi...
...during George and Alfred Tucker's boyhood were some of its first settlers-dramatic living links to the earliest beginnings of a "beautiful, somber" country. With few playmates, George and Alfred depended mostly on each other and their imaginations, but in their eyes they lived in a world twice as exciting as any city kid's. In the best descriptions that have been written of the Northwest's giant forests and mountain scenery Author Binns makes convincing their swelling pride in the beauty of a land where high-speed logging operations had not yet penetrated. Here they...