Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did John L. Lewis twice last week obey the instinct of years, refuse to violate that unionist taboo which forbids a union man to compromise himself even in the smallest way where a strike is concerned. In his larger relations with rival A. F. of L., however, last week Labor's Lewis smashed tradition in a big, ruthless...
Libya is more than twice, as big as Texas, seven times larger than Italy, but it has not a single river, and the poor people live mainly on dates and date paste. Of the 700.000 inhabitants some 500,000 are Mohammedans, about a third of these Negroes. Jews number about 27,000, Italians some 36,000, and sporadic nomads account for the rest. That Italy owns Libya she owes to her famed Socialist, the late Giovanni Giolitti, who was five times Premier, staged the Libyan War in 1911. He was hotly accused by moderates and conservatives of "unconstitutional conduct...
...Stanford-Binet, like the old, is oral. A new edition of Professor Terman's manual, Measuring Intelligence, gives instructions for administering and scoring the questions. To avoid duplication in the case of students tested twice in one year, these have been increased from a single set of 90 to two sets of 129 apiece...
...Twice married Mr. Dykstra has a daughter Elizabeth, 24, a stepson Franz, 16, who is a junior at the University School of Cincinnati, a 2-year-old grandson named Stephen Dykstra Posey. Last week Cedric Parker of Madison's Capital Times, a Progressive organ which remorselessly hounded glib, dressy Republican Frank, interviewed Mr. Dykstra and found that "he does not wear spats, carries no cane, and doesn't care if his trousers are in press...
Permitted to "work" only twice a week, the escorts will receive the following fees: $10 until midnight, $15 until 2 o'clock, and $5 for every two hours thereafter. Week-end specials will...