Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke, having twice tried unsuccessfully to return to private life, finally made his resignation stick...
...telephone, authorized him to summon the war's opposing generals to a council table in the name of the President of the U. S. Under that pressure, General Motors abandoned its stubborn refusal to negotiate with the strike leaders until they had yielded up its captive plants. Twice had President Sloan rejected similar summonses by Secretary of Labor Perkins, but Executive Vice President Knudsen now wrote to Governor Murphy: "The wish of the President of the United States leaves no alternative except compliance...
...correspondents thus far permitted to interview General Jose Miaja, valiant "Defender of Madrid," have mostly been given whispered warnings by his secretary: "Please do not mention his family! Only twice in my life have I seen the General weep-he is most courageous-but please not to mention his family. Hostages, you know! They have been held since the beginning of the war in Morocco, and the General knows that at any moment they may be shot...
SUMMIT OF MT. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11: Over the headwall in a hurry Vorlager beer awaited us and doughnuts for Tonkin in our coffee. And what a girl . . . 1 Haug her once, I Haug her twice, and then I Klister. Oh, Boy! Sohm fun! But she says Seal Skin me alive if I try again. Oh, Shuss, the Pole, Bildstein got her first, and I'm left Tiering my hair in vain...
...present Freshman adviser system is almost universally admitted to be a farce. The wonder is that there are a few isolated advisers who feel obligated to do more than sign study cards twice a year. An adviser should be qualified, of course, to give his advises some confidence that they are not playing blind man's buff with courses; beyond this he is, ideally, supposed to be guide, companion, expert in untangling personal, domestic, social knots in the Freshman's makeup. He is, in a word, supposed to be master of the study of the transition between school and college...