Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your football article, "Frenzy in Atlanta," in TIME, Oct. 25, you state that the $15,000-a-year salary of the University of Texas' Coach Dana N. Bible is twice that of the university's president. While this was true at the time Coach Bible's contract was signed last winter, the Texas Legislature shortly authorized the Board of Regents for the University to increase the President's salary to a maximum...
...prosecutor (by trading cases), the bailiff (who forges vacating orders), or the judge. So efficient are fixers that Denver's Ed Blonger for many years kept all his clients out of jail. Chicago's celebrated pickpocket, Eddie Jackson, was arrested "thousands of times," convicted only four times, twice because of factional fights between his political friends...
...stopped being Paramount's production boss and went back to directing. It is the kind of picture in which the characters move about in carefully articulated poses, in costly sets, talking about their emotions and playing well-bred tunes on the piano. Marlene Dietrich flutters her eyelashes twice before each line about love and once when her feeling is marital fidelity. Her make-up is so sharpened it makes her look gaunt, but nothing can keep her from looking lovely, and she can still be beautiful in clothes nobody else would dare to wear...
...Having monotonously kept their goal line uncrossed for five games before last week's, the University of Pittsburgh let Carnegie Tech cross it twice, but not often enough to win. Score: Pittsburgh 25, Carnegie Tech...
Bantam. The sole newcomer to U. S. automobile ranks is this week to be seen at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, having been denied space in Grand Central Palace because American Bantam Car Co. has not been in production a year. Practically the same size, but better streamlined and twice as powerful as the ill-fated American Austin (now defunct, though Austin Motor Co. Ltd. still prospers in Europe), the Bantam is being made in the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa. under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio...