Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third quarter, Ford scored twice for the Crimson on long runs, with Ecker and Blackwood making the remaining tallies...
...friends credit Mrs. Roosevelt's austerity to her orphaned childhood. Her Grandmother Hall raised her at Tivoli, on the Hudson. Mrs. Roosevelt recalls that twice a day she was expected to walk up & down a road on the estate with a cane hooked under her arms behind her back. She was two and her sixth cousin Franklin was four when they first met. Franklin rode her on his back. Says she: "I was a solemn child without beauty and painfully shy and I seemed like a little old woman entirely lacking in the spontaneous joy and mirth of youth...
...Socialists' recent split with Premier Sarraut's Radical Socialists (actually Liberals) and based on a promising alignment which loomed last week between the Radical Socialists and potent centre blocs dominated by towering, dynamic former Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin. As a great colonial administrator Premier Sarraut, twice Governor of French Indo-China, spoke to journalists of restoring French prosperity by "putting our colonies to work" and of strengthening the garrisons of France with colonial troops. Two Moroccan regiments were ordered to Lyons, but not without causing the pale eyebrows of General Maxime Weygand to lift. Great General...
...intellectual and personal relations, tart when tartness was due and effective. Examples are only too copious; "What are we teachers of Greek going to do if Greek is no longer required?" asked a colleague. "Do?" retorted Sumner. "Learn something else and teach it. I've had to do that, twice in my life." Or again, mordantly, to the class, "In the colonies, during inflation, you might see creditors fleeing madly from debtors who were chasing them to pay them with bushel-basket fuels of dirty paper."... Most famous of all, perhaps, is his address, immediately consequent upon the taking...
Kate Smith leads the mammoth stage attraction and is ably supported by a person who knows some very interesting tricks with a rope. Don't be discouraged if he fails once or twice. He did it yesterday...