Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Henry Ford. When Ford perfected the automobile named 999, which he thought might become the first in history to go a mile a minute, he set about to select a driver for a five-mile race. Barney Oldfield had never driven a car, only ridden in one twice, but he asked for a chance to drive it. After learning to drive in the morning, he won the race in the afternoon, covered a mile in 60 seconds. For the next 16 years his round, good-humored face, invariably accented by a cigar which he smoked at the angle...
...keep in the stall to which it was accustomed. In the wise-crackling dialog which makes up 90% of the book, even the heavy hero is allowed to say. when his mistress asks him if theirs was a case of love at first sight: "No, I had to look twice to believe my eyes...
...authors missed three broadcasts, two when they went to Hollywood to make Check and Double Check in 1930, one when a general SOS silenced all stations. In response to a public demand, the last missing installment was published in newspapers. Gosden and Correll have broadcast twice from sickbeds, once from a booth at the Chicago Stadium when they were attending a prizefight. In their annual swings around the country to make personal appearances in cinemansions, Amos and Andy take to the air from their authors' dressing room...
Professor Ernest Rutherford Groves, 57, lecturer on marriage at University of North Carolina, twice married and the father of four, thought there was too much emphasis on physical sex. Said he: "The chief problems of sex adjustment are the mental attitudes. Sex as mere technique can be taught in 15 minutes...
...must all have proved their mettle in other major contests. The 1934 field is composed of five national teams-France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Spain-Switzerland - of eight men each, and 20 independents (les isoles). Since the war Belgians have won the race six times, Frenchmen five times, an Italian twice, a Luxembourger twice...