Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carpenter two years ago, broke the all-time U. S. Open record with a score of 281 last year. Now, comfortably employed as pro at New Jersey's Braidburn Country Club, he is the first golfer since Bobby Jones to win the Open twice in succession. Only one golfer before him ever won by a bigger margin (Jim Barnes by nine strokes...
Lightly ballasted, she wallowed tipsily in taxi tests, thrice dipped a wing in the water, twice had to be towed in. One glowering afternoon last week, her port mooring-ring snapped and the wind-tossed ship could not be held to her mooring. As far as Veteran P.A.A. Test Pilot Edmund Allen could see, there was only one thing to do. Starting his motors, he ordered the stern line off, and the Clipper started across the bay. She thundered for the open Sound off Duwamish Head, cleared the water once, settled back, rose anew, spindrift spuming from her hull step...
...Wife (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) makes it clear that, having twice won the Cinema Academy's prize for acting, Luise Rainer has no intention of resting on her laurels. Eyes brimming, lips twitching and little voice choked with tears,, she goes all out for a third award, this time in the classic role of a belle of New Orleans. Unfortunately for Miss Rainer's aspirations and the entertainment value of this picture, a great deal of cinema film has run through projection machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays...
Married. Harold Fowler McCormick, 66, twice-married (to Edith Rockefeller, Ganna Walska) chairman of International Harvester Co.; to Adah Wilson. 34. nurse who tended the late Jean Harlow before she died, nursed Mr. McCormick this winter during a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif...
...Department of Justice brought the first anti-trust action against Alcoa. It resulted in a consent decree by which the company agreed to cancel its monopolistic contracts and to stop such practices in future. Since then Alcoa has been investigated several times by the Federal Trade Commission, twice by the Department of Justice. Alcoa has usually come out with a clean bill of health...