Word: twice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leading 9 to 7 at the beginning of the final chukker, the Crimson team put the game away by adding six more tallies as Cornell doubled their score. Tom Calhoun counted three times, his brother twice, and Beveraggi, on a poor mount, once. A last minute drive by Cornell resulted in four goals in two minutes, leaving the Big Red one short...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York discovered that there's nothing like an oldtimey masked ball to attract partygoers. Staging a masquerade in the Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom for its Pension Fund, the Philharmonic lured in 1,200 masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin...
...usual, the U.S. consumer would probably have to shell out twice. He was already paying for the support price; by next spring he might be paying again in higher prices for steak...
...Chennault had a field day with U.S. blundering in China in Way of a Fighter, and General "Howlin' Mad" Smith lashed out at high-level boners in his story of what happened to his marines in the Pacific. General "Hap" Arnold's yarn-spinning Global Mission was twice too long but important for any student of the war in the air. Blunt, down-to-earth and unghosted was General George Kenney's General Kenney Reports, a day-by-day account of his job and of the air war in the Southwest Pacific. Best of the books...
...Veteran Motor Car Club of America, which organizes summer meetings in New England to which members drive their old automobiles. This summer, in Teterboro, Vermont, Little won a race at one of these gatherings with his present '21 Model T. To win, he had to circle a track twice and remove a spark-plug before anyone else could do the same...