Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton the Crimson is going to encounter a much stronger Tiger outfit than those which they defeated twice during the past two campaigns. If comparative scores mean anything, Harvard has only a slight edge over the Orange and Black. Of five mutual opponents, each shows two victories as against three defeats. Harvard edged B.U. after the latter beat Princeton, but the Tigers subdued the St. Nicks who later took the Crimson 6-3. The Crimson's advantages lies in the fact that they scored more goals against Montreal than did Princeton and had less goals scored on them by McGill...
...comments on the envelope it comes in- "O. K.," "Sure," "You're crazy," "Don't want it," "Revamp the lead." The final veto or acceptance is Editor Stout's. Because of office interruptions, he does most of his copyreading at home at night, consequently works almost twice the hours of anyone else on the staff. He still travels. Only a few weeks ago he got back from seeing how things were in Texas. Not at all in the Lorimer tradition are Editor Stout's fondness for horse races and beer, his convivial daily luncheons...
Died. Harold Russell ("Night") Ryder, 42, onetime self-styled "Brightest young man in Wall Street," twice sentenced to prison on grand larceny charges growing out of stock manipulations; of a heart attack, while waiting for a thorough prison physical examination; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y. In 1930 an investigation of Woody & Co., his stock firm, led to his first arrest...
...Twice postponed, the goodwill squadron had finally lined up at Ciudad Trujillo, on the exact spot where Columbus is believed to have landed, to a farewell blessing from the Dominican Republic's wordy, despotic Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina-who among other activities in the past seven years changed the name of America's most ancient city from San Domingo to his own. The Dominican airplane, a single-motored, 450-h. p. Curtiss-Wright 19R, piloted by the nation's Army Air Commander Major Frank Felix Miranda, was named the Colon, Spanish version of Columbus...
...wind of their retreat. With them went thousands of peasants, a mule caravan carrying dismantled machinery, Singer sewing-machines, printing equipment. In forced marches, they crossed twelve provinces, over the 16,000-ft. passes of the Tibet mountains, through the swampy wastes of the grasslands in west China, twice missed annihilation by a hair in crossing treacherous, enemy-held rivers. On Oct. 20, 1935. 368 days after their evacuation of south China, the 20,000 survivors of the Red Army arrived in the small Soviet of Shensi...