Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best showing for the Crimson was made by Ed Miller, captain of the team, who won his epee specialty twice, and lost only once to Basten of the Connecticut team. Miller defeated Wadman, 2-0 and Roudakoff, 2-0. H. B. Holcombe, captain of the Yale team which succumbed to the Crimson Varsity by the narrow margin of 14-13 last year, led Hartford to triumph by winning three straight folls matches and who out of three matches at the sabres...
...Just before an examination it is legitimate to take some stimulant. ... It is certain that lump sugar gives almost immediate physical energy. Experiments show that alcohol in any form gives immediate energy followed by a period of depression greater than and lasting twice as long as the stimulation. A highball or cocktail is all right as a stimulant for a ten-minute interview but is worthless in preparing for a two-hour examination...
...While not so fast as such legendary performances as Kittie's 1¼ miles at 107 m.p.h. at Red Bank in 1885 or Haze's reputed two miles on the Hudson at 120 m.p.h., a skeeter, like any well-designed ice boat, can attain a speed almost twice the velocity of the wind it is sailed...
...pioneer pilot in Italy, taught famed Giuseppe Bellanca how to fly. Later he designed many successful ships, fought in the War, where he knew Corporal Benito Mussolini fairly well. Said Enea Bossi last week: "He's a big fella now. I've only seen him twice since he got to be a big fella...
...stretch in the Confederate Army. Son John hustled baggage in Anna's Illinois Central depot during summer vacations, taught school when he was 18, spent a few months at the University of Illinois in 1899. The summers in the Anna depot destined John Pelley for railroading. Only twice has he remained in one railroad job as long as five years-once as an I. C. superintendent in Fulton, Ky., and once as president of New York, New Haven & Hartford, which he went to from the presidency of Central of Georgia...