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   […] was provided and used during all the years the mail stagecoach made its twi-weekly trips between Plymouth and Boston, thus inaugurating the first "rural delivery" which continued until the railroad succeeded the coach.

   1960, John Henry Cutler, Put it on the Front Page, Please!, page 222

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   The result of this liberty was that a number of weekly or twi-weekly news-sheets were soon started, which, though they were small and at first but poorly furnished with news, laid the foundation of our present-day newspaper press, wielding a power that makes the world one vast judgment-hall, and to a large extent the initiative and referendum of all measures for the public good and the advancement of civilisation.

   1898, Alfred Thomas Story, The building of the British Empire, page 16

   As a consequence of the opening of the Simplon tunnel in May, Consul J. A. Smith, of Leghorn, reports that a twi-weekly "train de luxe" is to be placed in service over the new route for passengers between England and Italy via Calais, Paris, Lausanne, and Milan.

   1906, The Railway World, volume 50, page 593

   However, with more newspaper circulation under their direct control than the total of all 10,000 weekly, semi-weekly, and twi-weekly papers in cities under 50,000 people— with network programs on radio — and with the largest propaganda program in the nation outside government ... it has not been difficult for labor's professional officials to use the farmer as a vehicle for the advancement of their own cause.

   1954, American Plant Food Journal, volumes 8-9, page 44

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