Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germans take their civic duties just about twice as seriously as U. S. citizens. In 1928 in the largest U. S. election, 37,000,000 votes were cast out of a population of 120,000,000. Last week Germany, with a population of 63,000,000 cast nearly 37,000,000 votes for a new Reichstag. Police throughout Germany were kept on 48-hour emergency duty. No mass meetings were allowed. No drink stronger than beer might be sold. Despite these precautions nine people were killed and over 100 wounded in brawls through the country over the weekend. Still, compared...
...Twice von Gronau was shot down unhurt. He was ultimately promoted to a safe headquarters job. After the War he returned to East Prussia to farm the lands of his father. General Hans H. K. von Gronau, Commander of the 41st Reserve Corps at the Battle of the Marne. Under the drudgery of farming he found himself wanting to get into the air again. He hired a manager for the farm, a plane for himself, began to pile up hours. After operating a small school of his own, he got himself appointed director of the government-subsidized Fliegerschule at Warnemeunde...
...doubles next day, Allison and his partner John Van Ryn won the first match for the U. S. against Cochet and Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon. but not until Brugnon and Cochet, playing Van Ryn's weak backhand, had evened the match twice. Score...
...operating point for his company and terminus for its big telegraph system. He passed two days meeting with depart mental managers, discussing leases, pur chases, operations. The next day he flew to Amarillo where his company has im portant gas holdings. He looked over their reports, took off again. Twice forced down by bad weather, he caught a train at Winslow, Ariz., continued to Los Angeles. There, in a comfortable suite at the Biltmore, he had little time for rest before his rooms were jammed with attorneys, bankers and accountants. All this excitement was over Richfield Oil Co. of Cali...
...lets one down." He is bothered by a mysterious South American named Garsuvin, by a chorus of wiggling Tahitian girls, by a Hollywood cinema producer, by a London tycoon who takes William Dursley on a tour of speakeasies and to a bicycle race. William Dursley falls in love twice: first with the U. S. girl who presently runs off with a cinema troupe in Tahiti, then with an English widow who nurses him out of a fever caught while carousing shyly with the native girls...