Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grinding conviction that France had just been twice betrayed by Britain, broadly for reasons of high policy by His Majesty's Government, narrowly by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon for vain and personal reasons, embittered Le Sénat and La Chambre last week to the point of fury...
...other minor sports should also be included in this program. It is interesting to note, for example, that more secondary schools in the East have soccer teams than swimming teams; that almost every high school in the East has its own soccer team; and that statistically almost twice as many freshmen candidates those last fall turned out for soccer as for boxing, wrestling, or hockey at the beginning of the winter season. In spite of this fact, the proposer of the seven-point program recommends that "possibly soccer" be dropped from the H.A.A. and that the less popular sports...
Heir Astor, so shy that he often swallows twice before answering a simple question, was sent by the League of Nations' cowardly Lytton Commission to investigate Northern Manchuria when they deemed it too dangerous to go themselves (TiME, May 30, 1932). Next year, stopping in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Astor remarked: "When my friends try to telephone me and ask for Waldorf Astor the operators say, 'Oh, yeah?' I suppose it is rather like calling up the Aquarium and asking for Mr. Fish...
Nothing could be more encouraging than the formation of a conservative radio league, called the Crusaders, which puts forth twice a week over a nationwide network a clear-cut, unanswerable debunkment of panaceas. Unfortunately the Crusaders attribute the ideas they expose, such as machine-caused unemployment, to economists in general, and not just to bad economists. That is to be expected when good economists do not make themselves heard among the great mass of people. But their unintellectual approach will be more effective by far then if they confused their listeners with too much theory...
...Twice last week national radio hookups were used to plug Manhattan art shows...