Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's was by no means the most costly heavyweight championship fight on record. That distinction still belongs to the Tunney v. Heeney bout of 1928 on which $200,000 was dropped. Camera's failure to knock out an opponent who has only been knocked out twice in 148 fights caused most sportswriters to deride him for his victory last week. Nothing he has done since he landed in the U. S. in 1929-, an illiterate monster with a French manager, has won him any praise or popularity. After last week's bout, Challenger Loughran, lauded...
Second race. Fighting to get back the lead he lost on the first lap, Dupuy tried to nose inside Tennes on the sharp turns, twice almost succeeded before Tennes won, with Ellsworth third...
...advertisement in the newspapers. For his first Mexican concert he hired 40 players. By the time he reached the 29th concert he had no musicians under his baton. When he returned to New York in the summer he conducted the Philharmonic in the Stadium series (TIME, Aug. 21). Twice the audience rose to cheer him. But Iturbi well knew when he went to Philadelphia that a formal winter engagement would be a stiffer test, that success depended largely on the response of the men at rehearsals...
...family: "I bought my mother an orange grove near Los Angeles and I gave her a tractor for a birthday present. Her real name is Annette Kisling. My real name is Helen Beck, and I was born in Hickory County, Missouri. My mother has been married twice. We grow the best apples in the world in Hickory County." Her career: "I have been having such a good time." Other Rand observations: "It shouldn't cost anything to go naked. I like to be as naked as possible. ... I think my dance is the most beautiful thing in the world...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, will direct the combined Harvard and Radcliffe Glee Clubs in the first of four joint rehearsals for the concert of Sunday, March 18, when they will sing the Bach B-Minor Mass at Symphony Hall, accompanied by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Mass will be sung twice, in the afternoon, and again in the evening. Approximately 170 members of the Glee Club will sing, with a corresponding number from Radcliffe. The list of those who are to sing will be made out this week...