Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until the other fellow has shot at me. I have been busy writing letters trying to explain how it could be do'ne. Ranger Bob Goss, a member of my company, can hit a playing card turned edgewise with his pistol turned upside down. He does this about twice out of every five shots...
...France preparing a grandstand play to show the power of the French franc by causing a great withdrawal of gold from New York? Unlike the drain on the Bank of England it could be nothing but a grandstand play for the U. S. has still twice as much gold in its vaults as France. Still, the moral effect of the move would be great...
Newark Chamber of Commerce Building, was twice elected the Chamber's president. In 1919, Pierre S. du Pont of Wilmington retired from the gunpowder business, prepared to give Delaware a peerless school system. For him Builder Betelle put up 125 schools. He also planned the normal school at New Britain, Conn., the new State Teachers' College at Trenton, N. J., nine others elsewhere. Among his 56 high schools are those of Greenwich (Conn.). Newark, Great Neck (L. I.), New Rochelle (N. Y.), the George Fisher Baker Memorial High School at Tuxedo Park, N. Y. He has also built...
...Author. Lieut. Colonel Eliot Crawshay-Williams (retired). Etoned, Oxfordized, twice divorced, served his country as an army officer in India, served one-time Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George as Parliamentary Private Secretary; in the War served his country again in Egypt, Palestine. Many a book of plays, essays, stories bears his name. Night in the Hotel is his first U. S. importation...
...beaver wanted the tree for a dam, chewed it close to the ground, dragged it as far as the line permitted. Then, instead of biting off the line, as it could have done with one chop of its four big flat front teeth, the beaver gnawed through the tree twice more, once just above the rope girdle, then just below: carried the two tree sections away, left the tethered bit behind...