Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freighter Sundance docked at Ghent, Seaman Myak Wooker, 6 ft. 6 in. Esthonian, defied Chief Mate Leonard C. Adams, refused to work unloading cargo. He hid under his bunk. Mate Adams dragged him out. They fought. Wooker seized a fire axe. Mr. Adams drew his revolver, fired twice at close range, killed the sailor. Belgian authorities cleared Mr. Adams but when the Sundance reached Rotterdam he was relieved of his post after the skipper received a petition...
...Three days later at Hayneville, Ala., Lynching No. 5 took place. A Negro boy was said to have frightened an 11-year-old white girl. A crowd took him out of town, tied him to a tree with a rope and dog chain, shot him 32 times, twice for every year he had lived...
...news that Parker ("Shorty") Cramer was the pilot was a sure clue to the flight's objective. Since immediately after the War. Pilot Cramer, onetime flying partner of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, had been arguing for a subarctic air route to Europe via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark. Twice he attempted a trailblazer, twice failed: once with Pilot Bert Hassell in 1928; the following year in the Chicago Tribune's Sikorsky amphibian 'Untin' Bowler, which was broken by floating ice and sunk in the Hudson Strait. "Shorty" Cramer continued to preach the feasibility of the route...
...late great Good Old Days publishers would think twice, thrice, about putting out solid wares in the light-minded summer season, would generally offer fripperies and froufrou. Competition has somewhat altered the case, but summer still turns (temporarily) many a serious publisher into a souffle-monger. Here are two concoctions guaranteed digestible in hot weather...
...Tragedy of Waste. He is the only U. S. author to make three book clubs: Your Money's Worth (with F. J. Schlink) was a Book-of-the Month; Prosperity, Fact or Myth? was a Paper Book; the Literary Guild has chosen Mexico for August. He has been twice married (divorced from Margaret Hatfield in 1929), lives in Redding, Conn. and goes to Manhattan once a week to work at the Labor Bureau (without pay), and at the one accounting job he has kept (which pays well...