Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peter Verigin was killed in a strange explosion on a railroad train. Young Peter, who said he had been imprisoned and twice remitted from death by the U. S. S. R., got leave to return to Canada on condition that he stay away from Russia for good. Since then he has admitted receiving $720,000 from his loyal, prosperous Doukhobors. But clashes with the Government have increased, hundreds of Doukhobors have been jailed. Proposals have been made that the Doukhobors be at least isolated on an island; by the terms of their admission in 1899 it is impossible to exile...
...great plays at her Civic Repertory Theatre in Manhattan's out-of-the-way 14th Street. She has not been without kudos. In 1930 she produced Pulitzer Prizewinning Alison's House. As the years rolled by, intelligent folk who might go down to 14th Street twice a year to enjoy Chekhov or Ibsen, came to regard the Civic Repertory as complacently as they would the Public Library. But water is cherished when the well begins to run dry. There was considerable excitement among the theatre's many friends last week when suddenly, by a sink-or-swim...
...total number of volumes passed the three million mark. The decline in the rate of increase is concentrated chiefly in the College Library itself, since the special libraries show an increase due largely to purchases of books for the Harvard-Yenching Institute. The Business School has also added nearly twice as many books this year...
...first married twice-widowed Anne Harriman in 1903, died...
...from $1.20 a dozen to 83?. But compared to the last few semi-annual nose-dives that forced Montgomery Ward to take a $5.300,000 inventory loss in 1931 the slashes were moderate. Wall Street interpreted this price firming favorably, for Montgomery Ward, able to adjust retail levels only twice a year, must forecast accurately...