Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students are forgetful that books have a tendency to lie around long after they have been finished. If the rule required that a book be returned in two weeks, half the present time, twice the number of readers could use a given book. Even now some current books must be returned in seven days. This policy applied to all books, with the exception of those being used for honors, changing the limit to two weeks, and permitting renewal if no one had meanwhile applied for the book, would enhance the value of Widener and of every book it contains...
...Frankenstein" is the best of the three films that are now showing at the University. Since it is screened only twice a day, at one and eleven o'clock, you should be sure to go at one of these times. Contrary to the exasperating procedure at the Boston performances, "Frankenstein" is appearing without cuts...
...story pertaining to the University is immediately overated merely because it concerns Harvard; it is a delight for most city editors to attach a riot story for instance, to the name of the University. With distorted publicity there is opprobium and the difficulty of setting matters aright is twice as great...
...fruit cake smells so good that the artist who sketched it had to have his hands slapped twice to keep him from nibbling...
...chairman of the new board, who once described himself as a "selector of presidents." During his investment banking days he helped reorganize many a defunct or tottering enterprise: Union Bag & Paper Corp., American-La France Fire Engine Co., Norfolk Southern Railroad, Intertype Corp., Dictaphone Corp., Ansco Photo-products, Inc. Twice he and his friends had working control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, sold out both times at a profit. Backer Swartwout said Fisk's plans for a new selling campaign would not be ready for several months...