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Word: twin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lately his twin daughters were elected to help transport the Vassar College daisy chain. Lately, too, authorized by the Princeton trustees, he forbade the young men of Princeton to keep automobiles at college (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cunning Gauss | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...truth and the realities can assert that the Americans who fell in France did not die in vain. ... In eleven European countries despots wipe their feet upon the prostrate bodies of Liberty and Democracy, though none but Mussolini dares to avow it and to boast of profaning the twin goddesses in be half of whom Woodrow Wilson summoned this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Wrathful Decade | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...other wild animals in and around the Gulf of California. I had the Oaxaca completely done over to suit my taste. Aboard, our feet will rest on Oriental rugs; our eyes will gaze on rare paintings; our faces will be cooled by electric fans; we will sleep in twin beds instead of berths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...What Roman deity was alleged by the Vestal Rhea Silvia to have been the father of her twin sons, Romulus and Remus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Substitute Questions | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...STRONGER GOD-Eric Waring -Brentano's ($2). Heroines called "gentlemen" have been the vogue. They combine fascination and sportsmanship, but not ladylike morals and manners. Now comes Freya Von Herrenstein trying bravely to be both a gentleman and a lady. For ten years she passes as her dead twin brother, Kurt-at home, at military school, in the Uhlans, in gay 19th Century Vienna. Love, of course, is the deity referred to by the title. The report, "Missing in action," is her prothalamium. . . . Author Waring is not just clever. He writes with scrupulous attention to his main obligations-sharp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambivalent | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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