Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectacularly, but twice as sensational was the win of Brown. In the last Reichstag there was a "joke party" of twelve deputies, headed by Austrian-born Herr Adolf Hitler, crony of General Erich von Ludendorv with whom he spilled Bavarian blood in 1923 trying to stage a putsch (revolution). Scorned as a "wild man," this Fascist fanatic has been storming up and down depressed Germany, promising Prosperity if given enough votes to do two things: 1) replace Germany's "do nothing" Reichstag and President by a Dictator (presumably the "wild man"); 2) Repudiate Germany's obligations under the Young Plan...
...Captain Roark, pitched off his white-booted pony, thrown breathless on his back. His brother Raymond hurried out on the field, saw that the injury was not serious, ran back to stop his frantic mother who had come down from the stands to rush to her fallen son. Twice she crossed the planked boundaries, twice Raymond shushed her back. Meantime Son Winston got up, the crowd roared, he got another pony and the game was on again...
...thwart the maestro's terrific placement game. With the match score 10-8, 6-3, 3-6 in Doeg's favor, the crowd sat on the edge of their cushions at the beginning of the last set. Still quarreling with decisions, Tilden mustered all his declining strength, twice made breathless leaps for "impossible" shots that will be remembered at Forest Hills a long time. But it was strong young John Doeg who finally broke through...
...ocean floor, to conduct seawater from the cold bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude believes that power can be generated at unheard-of cheapness by utilizing the temperature differential between the cold bottom-water and water from the ocean's surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet in diameter into water nearly one-half mile deep. Both times, subsurface currents and pressures defeated him, sweeping away his costly apparatus (TIME, July 7 et ante). Last week, with...
...where he writes most of his poetry. Shy, scholarly, academic, he is a 32nd degree bachelor, is famed as most reticent, most elusive, least known U. S. man of letters. Other books: Captain Craig, The Alan Against the Sky, Merlin, Lancelot, Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice, Tristram, Calender's House, Dionysus in Doubt...