Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twice I have read, among other inaccuracies in TIME, accounts of Detroit's politico-economic situation written by or obtained from persons either deliberately unfriendly to Mayor Frank Murphy, or ignorant of the facts...
From the criminals' lexicon comes this saw: You can always buy an alibi. Whether bought or not, simple alibis twice in a month have overridden masses of condemning evidence gathered by the State of New York...
...Chicago a fortune-teller told Mrs. Sarah Koestner, 26, that her 7-year-old son would lose his sight and that her husband would desert her. Leaving a note to the husband directing that the son's eyes be tested twice a year, Mrs. Sarah Koestner rented a ninth-story hotel room, jumped out the window...
...Washington State Reformatory at Monroe. For refractory urchins there are twelve black correction cells with a plank to sleep on and no bedding. Other miscreants are put in a "drill crew" which is kept constantly moving around and around the yard, stopping only twice a day for bread and water. At Monroe, investigators found U. S. prisoners severely punished for "not standing at count . . . speaking in dining room . . . laughing in the cell block . . . making loud popping noises with the mouth." One child had died in his punishment cell...
...train the youth in self-control, stick-to-it-iveness, fair play, courage, self-restraint, etc. etc. Founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, stove manufacturer and onetime itinerant clock salesman whose own education had been meagre, it has today a fine military Tudor-Gothic plant and 677 cadets?twice as many as any other U. S. private military school. On the wooded shores of Lake Maxinkuckee it stands, hard by the farm where Founder Culver met and married Emily Jane Hand in 1864. He died in 1897, aged 57, but his wife had borne him five sons to carry...