Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historic event to talk over. For as surely as if the votes were already counted, as definitely as if the President had already signed the bill, the U. S. had that day finally jettisoned a principle as old as John Paul Jones, a principle for which it had twice gone to war-the freedom of the seas...
Winthrop took the ball to within the ten yard line twice in a fast, exciting last quarter, only to be turned back on the ground and in the air. Finally Lowell, with the time being reckoned in seconds, gained possession of the ball on the six yard line, only to fumble the ball behind the goal line...
...rather say 'when than if.' " *German submarines can cruise about 3,000 miles, by proclamation of Franklin Roosevelt have the right to be peacefully present in neutral U. S. waters, refuel at U. S. ports, go peacefully home. Germany's famed Deutschland in World War I twice dodged the British and crossed to the U. S. Its U-53 put up at Newport, R. I. just before it sank six foreign merchantmen off Nantucket...
...appearing from nowhere while the submarine still lay by watching the rescue. A half-dozen men were on the U-boat's deck when the diving plane raked it with machine-gun fire. The submarine dived frantically, perhaps with its conning tower still open. The bomber, swooping twice again, dropped charges which almost certainly demolished the U-boat...
Best bets for swift, sure crossing were the U. S. Lines or Pan American Airways. Pan American Clippers still flew twice a week, but they were booked heavily weeks ahead. U. S. Lines operated on full schedules, stepped up their sailings to evacuate 5,000 U. S. citizens still stranded in Europe. But their seamen, striking for 25% wage increase, war-risk life insurance and bonuses, delayed some eight liners nearly a week...