Word: dual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pseudonym Martha Deane, she has babbled furiously about friends, featherbeds, food, life in Missouri, New York and Europe. Until a couple of months ago, she was heard over both CBS and the MBS station WOR, serving Columbia as Mary Margaret McBride, WOR as Martha Deane. In her dual role she made somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000 a year. Now she functions only for CBS, and a new Martha Deane has taken over her spot on WOR. Her five-a-week, 15-minute show is strictly...
Flying 50 or 60 horse power Cubs or Taylorcraft, students in the primary course have begun training in half-hour intervals. After the solo, which is usually permitted after eight hours of dual instruction, students will fly in three-quarter hour periods for the next three hours, when they will begin to fly for an hour at a time until the course is completed...
...Candidate Willkie has said that he is for selective military service, for an aggressive foreign policy. Both statements sat poorly on the stomachs of his party's more timorous Congressmen. One of Mr. Willkie's guests at Rushville was Massachusetts' Congressman Joe Martin, who, in the dual role of G. O. P. National Chairman and Republican leader in the House, looms large in the campaign. Joe Martin barely waited to get out of Rushville before announcing that 1) he had not made up his own mind about conscription, 2) he did not expect other Republicans in Congress...
They were delighted to. If they survive a month of elimination training at Floyd Bennett, they will become cadets and learn to fly for the U. S. Navy at its great Pensacola Training Station. In the mean time they will have received ten hours of dual flight instruction, will get doused with water after they solo. If they then survive seven and a half months at Pensacola, they will acquire the Navy's wings of gold, the rank of ensign, monthly pay of $125 to $205. Then all they will have to do is keep their wings clean...
...taught the Shakers to believe in a dual, male-female God and Christ-spirit, enjoined them to remain celibate. Sister and brother Shakers lived together as large "families," in communities headed by elders and elderesses of equal authority. Their large frame houses, in which the floors were divided to segregate men & women, still stand as marvels of pegged construction. They worshiped, with ritual marches, dances, gesticulations, in great meetinghouses. At a Shaker dance, brothers & sisters lined up facing each other, with palms upturned to receive God's blessings, singing songs like Shake Off the Flesh...