Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalissimo Chiang is reported to be up-country "fighting Chinese Communists" against whom ''his victories have been many" (TIME, Feb. 24). My father is living in this up-country section-his residence for thirty years -in its most Communist-infested area. He has escaped from the Communists twice within the last twelve months, once in one of Chiang Kai-shek's military planes-piloted by a young Iowan-and once afoot, mere yards ahead of the Red vanguard. His latest letter, dated in January, warns me that despite all I may read, "no Communist army...
Thus the beauty of Orator Hitler's daily and twice-daily speeches to German voters last week was that he said almost everything backwards as well as forwards in alternate moods similar to Wagnerian music and having a similar appeal to the German soul. Intellectual tests of consistency the cheering throngs did not apply; they simply revelled. The Great Orator filled them fuller & fuller to bursting with his simple themes: GERMANY, BLOOD & SOIL, HONOR...
Based on a year's study, the specifications for the new plane fill 195 pages, are the most complete ever drafted. In general the standardized supership will resemble the famed Douglas DC2 and the new DST, but it will be nearly twice the former's size, with 140-ft. wingspread, 95-ft. length, 25-ton weight, four motors. Able to seat 40 passengers or sleep 20, it will have a top speed of 230 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 210 at 75% horsepower, will be able to fly coast-to-coast with two stops in 13 hours, from...
Author Stern's autobiographical scheme was also a psychological experiment. She decided to start from a casually selected object, let subconscious association's artful aid carry her whither it would; repeat the process twice, to the point where all three random lines met - "and see then whether the space they enclose remains a vacuum, or whether anything of interest, any personal King Charles's Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example...
...Contrary to the usual opinion, women are safer drivers than men. Twice as many of the latter have licenses, but they also cause 70 per cent of the serious accidents. Men drive faster and more, but are more dangerous...