Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daylight began to fade, Golfer Ferebee limped up to the final green, sank his putt for a 5 and a last-round 89. He had taken 687 strokes (90, 82, 82, 82, 87, 87, 88, 89) for the 144 holes, had covered each of Olympia's four courses twice (a tee-to-green distance of 29 miles) in 13 hr. 32 min. "Well, anyway, my golf's got volume, if not quality," panted Ferebee, as he peeled off $100 to pay the ten caddies he had used...
When the bell rings twice, it means that a ship listed as lost or overdue has been at last reported. One day last week the Lutine bell gave two solemnly joyful clangs. The ship reported...
...Ripley broadcast, frenzied Announcer Graham McNamee took the microphone and, with customary hysteria, burbled his story of Kuda Bux walking twice through 20 feet of fire. Actually, the fire was in two separate ten-foot pits...
...both of these, Capra, as the company's strongest financial asset, has been a more than acceptable substitute. A genial, stocky, 41-year-old son of Sicilian immigrants, he has twice won the top honors of his profession, the Motion Picture Academy's Award for It Happened One Night in 1935, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in 1936. Last year, after a prolonged dispute in which he charged Columbia with breach of contract, their differences were composed on a basis that pays Capra roughly $350,000 a year. He has personally created or vastly improved half-a-dozen...
...English have no notion of using piggyback planes in regular transatlantic service; last week's flight of the Mercury was a simple military experiment. Nonetheless, the Mercury will twice more shuttle across the Atlantic from Foynes to Montreal and Port Washington. More serious items on Imperial Airways' transatlantic schedule: five flights by the De Havilland four-motor Albatross, four flights by the Cabot, a seaplane of the same genus as the Caledonia and the Cambria which made ten flights...