Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston newsdealer who defied the police warning, Chairman Henry J. Smith said last night: "We complimented Chief Timilty because we believed that the issue arouses morbid curiosity in children." Asked what he thought of the idea that the publication of childbirth information might make immoral girls think twice, Smith replied: "Well, there might be something to that...
...into the stream to escape being trampled by following horses-past Valentine's, past the deadly Canal Turn, where as many as 22 horses have failed in a single race, round to the water jump before the stands. Next day 36 horses started to make the same circuit twice. Only 13 succeeded...
...actual operating subsidiaries. When most of the utility business refused to register, SEC agreed to hold the Act in abeyance while it brought a test case against Electric Bond & Share. In court, however, SEC attempted to limit the test solely to the registration feature. E. B. & S. lost twice in lower courts and last week it failed again to get a complete judgment on the Act. Reading the majority opinion, Chief Justice Hughes refused to consider anything but the issue of registration, left the rest of the law for future adjudication. This there will surely be when SEC starts reforming...
...last minute Farmers dumped 500,000 bu. of previously invisible corn on the market, gave Cargill a real trimming as the price fell 27?. Last September Cargill got even. With only a small carryover from the previous year, corn was scarce anyway and Cargill bought almost twice as much (6,000,000 bu.) as there was available for delivery that month. There followed a mad forage for corn by shorts, of whom the biggest was Farmers National. As the price soared to $1.16 a bu., it became apparent that the shorts could not cover and the Chicago Pit was threatened...
...attention of a few adventure-minded readers with his fast-moving, lightly-laden Beat to Quarters. That book revolved around a romantic hero, Captain Horatio Hornblower, a shy, dignified, portly British sea dog of Napoleonic times, master of H.M.S. Lydia, who pitted his 36-gun frigate against ships twice as strong. Last fortnight, when he continued Captain Hornblower's story in Ship of the Line, it seemed likely that more readers would hear of Author Forester, and keep a lookout for him hereafter...