Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jem Smith. 68, oldtime bare-knuckle prizefighter who was twice heavyweight champion of England; at Acton. London suburb. He once fought Jake Kilrain for 106 rounds, for a $10,000 purse and the heavyweight championship of the world, to a draw...
...Jeffers, 33, Baptist evangelist, had arrived in Jonesboro for a series of meetings. Short, bespectacled, he was a rousing, tingling exhorter. It was known that he had been shot at twice last spring when he was lambasting St. Louis in a campaign to clean up gambling. Jones- boro was glad to have him back, especially when he went at once to shout defiance at his rival, Rev. Dow H. Heard, 35. Redhaired, rangy, lantern-jawed, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Evangelist Jeffers, Jonesboro believed, was trying to oust Mr. Heard from his pastorate. He had accused Mr. Heard...
Pendley Calling of Blarney Blarney, John Grenville Bates's wire-haired fox terrier which twice was best dog in Madi son Square Garden shows...
...began to encounter difficulties. The old man in her pilot boat misdirected her. A wind came up and blew her eight miles off her course. Her goggles began to leak, water to blind her. After the first eight hours, she suffered from acute nausea and pains in her arm. Twice she fainted but, on recovering, prayed that the torture of cold might not be added to her obstacles. She was further encouraged by the yells of her 15-year-old son Everett who accompanied her in a row- boat. Finally, 23 hours after she had entered the water at Glenbrook...
...witch woman. She gave him good advice: "You got to weary yo' life along, 'cause dat's de way hit turns out. You work and yo' back gits tired; you lay round hyar in de sun and shade and yo' soul gits twice as weary. Take a job er work, and you wear cawns in yo' hands. Th'ow yo' shoes under some woman's bed, and cawns come on yo' weary soul. Quit yo' work, and you gits de all-overs. quit yo' woman, and you gits...