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Word: twice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the half-time rest, Struck started a Crimson rally with two field goals and a free shot while Herrick tallied twice and Lupien once from the floor before the Terriers could pierce the Fesler defense...

Author: By B. SHEFFIELD West, | Title: TERRIERS TOPPLE BEFORE CRIMSON HOOPSTERS 42-29 | 12/17/1937 | See Source »

...once, but twice! ''Beaus." My Webster's says "beaux." Which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...scene in Shanghai's International Settlement, every effort to dissuade the Japanese from celebrating their victory with a boastful parade was made, meanwhile, by British Brigadier Alexander Telfer-Smollett and the U. S. Marines' Brigadier General John C. Beaumont. After they had twice protested in vain to the Japanese, a high U. S. official, lacking in Shanghai the detached perspective of London, cried: "If the Chinese fire a single shot, God knows what will happen! To hold such a procession at such a time is to invite disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Victory, Bomb, Invasion | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...finest Siegfrieds in decades, long-legged, prancing Hartmann acted his role as though he were living it, sang and pounded his anvil with energy and musicianship, peeled the armor from sleeping Brunnhilde (Marjorie Lawrence) with a taxidermist's skill. Vocally he wavered once or twice, but he lived up to the excellent reports of his ability which had leaked out from rehearsals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Opera | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Caesar and Antony went down was not Cleopatra's fault; if, says Ludwig, they had followed her advice, her example in killing off two brothers and two sisters, had not naively pardoned their enemies, everything would have been all right. Pale, cold-blooded Octavian, whom easygoing Antony had twice neglected to "liquidate," won out because he followed a more modern technique of demagogy and blood purges. It is in tracing such blunders of Caesar and Antony that Author Ludwig makes Cleopatra's maneuvers shine with genius, makes her biography a nice contemporary commentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clcopatriot | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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