Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American cars," said he drily, "are already selling in France for twice the price asked for them in the United States. The existing rates provide ample protection. French automobile interests are seeking to bar American cars in order to permit them to allow their business to vegetate without the benefit of the improvements and progress which were required of them when trying to sell against reasonable competition from foreign manufacturers...
...hard-headed economic system and the communicants are bustling, practical, prosperous. Always have non-Mormons been welcomed to services and organ recitals in the great domed Tabernacle (seating capacity 10,000) just behind the Temple. This auditorium, where the late great Soprano Adelina Patti remarked: "My voice is twice as large here," had undergone last week a vast refurbishing for a public pageant calculated to impress its audiences with the fact that Mormonism is a successful religion if ever there was one. Accompanying the pageant would be music from one of Mormondom's most cherished treasures- its mighty organ...
Apropos of the House Plan now Anglicizing Harvard students is the fact that about 20 men are now working out on Soldiers Field twice a week playing the English game of Rugby. The move to play the game was made here by several students from across the sea who are enrolled in college at the present time and has since been taken up by at least a score more, many of whom are Freshmen taking the sport for prescribed exercise...
While at Kent Coach Sullivan plans to have his charges row twice a day in preparation for the Spring season: At present the boat is slightly overweight, and the coach may find it necessary to rearrange his eight in order to reduce the average of the boat. No changes, however, will be effected until after he has had an opportunity to put his men through Spring practice, and has matched them against the Kent crew...
Birthday. Robert Tyre Jones, thrice U. S. open golf champion, four times U. S. amateur champion, twice British open champion; at Atlanta, Ga. Age: 28. Date, March...