Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...B.B.C. gave the Villon twice...
...Government set the minnow against the mosquitoes. It was the silver-brown "mosquito fish" or gambusia, found only in North & South Carolina ponds. The male is less than an inch long. The female is twice his size and gives birth to live fish. Surface-feeders, they gladly gobble all the mosquito "wigglers" they can hold. Italy bought 200,000 of them every year from U. S. fish dealers and dumped them into the Istrian ponds. They gobbled their weight in "wigglers." Fortnight ago the Italo-German Institute of Marine Biology announced that the gambusia had gobbled malaria clean...
...Paul's School (Concord) nor at Harvard. He was shy. and had too much money to work out of it the natural way. His early habit of entertaining the boys to win them stuck to him. The striking things about Hearst's prankish, college days, which were twice interrupted by "rustications," were his comparative sobriety and calmness at the centre of the whirlwinds he created, and his real interest even then in publishing. He haunted Boston newspaper plants. He made the Lampoon not only funny but profitable. And he decided Joseph Pulitzer's sensational new World...
...Bedtime Story is cunningly conceived on the premise that if Maurice Chevalier appeals strongly to female cinemaddicts. Chevalier with a foundling will appeal twice as strongly. The infant in the picture, billed as Baby LeRoy, is really eight-month-old LeRoy Winebrenner, of Pasadena, Calif. Paramount hired him from his mother for $1,000 and a $2,500 endowment policy to mature when he is 15. Partially bald, with a jolly, unscrupulous face. Cinemactor LeRoy is ingratiating in much the same way as Cinemactor Chevalier. Although he cannot talk, he gurgles more convincingly than Chevalier, who now speaks English perfectly...
...help rid children of superstition. Anti-superstition courses have already been tried in 29 high schools in 15 States, and as much as 494% improvement has been found after explosion of such unfounded beliefs as that the groundhog foretells weather, that winters are growing warmer, that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, that brunettes are more trustworthy than blondes...