Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merely to have been in 1,800 baseball games in succession is twice as much as any current big leaguer has been able to accomplish but what is far more remarkable in Gehrig's case is what he has done in them. In eleven years he has never had a season's batting average of less than .300. He has led his league in batting once, in home runs three times, in batting in runs five times. He has hit three home runs in one game three times and once he hit four. Last week, for the fourth...
Thirty minutes of the scrimmage was devoted to defensive work, before Harlow allowed the A team to take the ball against a mixed eleven composed of Jayvees and Varsity C men. The first team drove the length of the field twice, interupted only by one intercepted pass. Bill Watt crashed over for the first score from the 3 yard line after a series of line gains had put the ball in position...
...attack was more varied on the second march, with forward passes and spectacular end runs interspersed. Bob Stuart, Jayvee star of last year broke loose twice for runs of 15 yards and a pass Stuart to Staples was good for 15 more. After a first on the 15 yard line, it only required three rushes to cross the last white line. Stuart did the carrying...
...response from the residents of Boston and Cambridge who were asked to serve as hosts to University guests during the Celebration, was particularly generous according to Mr. Greene. Letters of inquiry were mailed in January, and the response was so large that although nearly twice the number of expected Delegates came, all were placed during their stay here...
...family sent him to the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Art, where for some time he vacillated between painting, sculpture and architecture. When the War broke, Boris Lovet-Lorski promptly enlisted in the Grodno Hussars, for no other reason than that he liked their gaudy uniform. He was wounded twice, hospitalized in Odessa, soon found himself a personal aide-de-camp to Alexander Kerensky. On the rise of the Bolsheviks, "Lorochka" fled Russia as a cello player...