Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel, 60 men and ten weeks time, a platform 1,000 ft. long and 450 ft. wide was built over the island and its 17 inhabitants. On the platform was deposit a fleet of airplanes and 3,000 extras. An ocean liner was necessary to carry the workers twice daily between Oie and the nearest hotel at Rügen. No Marriage Ties (RKO). As this picture opens Bruce Foster (Richard Dix) is a sports reporter who, instead of covering the second Dempsey-Tunney fight, as he has been assigned to do, is blowing a toy pipe in a speakeasy...
...Bill Terry, who has organized the best pitching staff in the league, have unexpectedly stayed in first place against harder-hitting teams like Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago. Last week the Giants made it clear that they do not depend entirely on defensive skill by thrashing Philadelphia 18 to 1 twice...
...blood at atmospheric pressure. Peering through his microscope, Scientist Laurie discovered why. He found that whale blood teems with tiny free-swimming organisms, 20 millions of them per cubic millimetre, with the property-familiar in several forms of bacteria-of "fixing" nitrogen. These enable the whale to absorb almost twice the proportion of nitrogen in its blood that a human being can. They save him-when he surfaces swiftly after sounding deep- from the pain and dizziness called caisson disease or "the bends" experienced by human deep-sea divers, in whose veins bubbles of nitrogen form when they come...
After taking his degree at the University of Edinburgh, young Dr. Sutherland went to Spain to assist his uncle, who had a practice at Huelva. There he saw many a bullfight, became cronies with El Litri, veteran matador. Twice Sutherland "played" a bull in a tentadero (practice fight). The first time, after two successful passes, the bull got him, might have killed him if El Litri had not bounded to his rescue...
...down, a muttering arose from the judges' stand. Pilot Turner, the other contestants, judges, timers, umpires were called into huddle. Had Turner cut inside a distant pylon? He readily admitted that he had, to avoid smacking into Wedell. But on his next lap he had circled that pylon twice (as witnesses saw) and still won by more than a mile. Nevertheless, said the judges, pylons are pylons and rules are rules. Prize money, trophy, title were taken from Turner, handed to Wedell...