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Word: twin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some men have an eye for quick stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz, Yellow Cab tycoon. Mr. Hertz has a twin-motored Sikorsky in which the Vice President was tempted to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtis's Junket | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...ranks of the University skaters will be depleted by the graduation of Captain John Tudor '29, left wing, and of three goalies, O. P. Jackson '29, H. H. Newell '29, and W. L. Elkins '29. It is not yet certain whether the Bigelows, twin-stars of the defense, will return next season or not. With the remainder of the squad intact and reinforced by several members of this year's powerful Freshman sextet, hopes for another strong Harvard team are brighter than usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIDDENS WILL LEAD NEXT SEASON'S SIX | 3/20/1929 | See Source »

Hero Moseley. The "Big River" or Rio Grande is part of the frontier between the U. S. and Mexico. Facing each other on opposite banks stand twin cities. El Paso and Juarez?queer twins. El Paso is a clean, Babbitt city, with little skyscrapers; but dirty Juarez is a town of low adobe structures where drink and vicious company are easily found. In Juarez last week General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., acquitted himself right well as a Hero of Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...exhibition will include paintings in oil and water colors, sculpture, prints, and examples of decorative art. Among the outstanding works in oil which will be shown are a still life by Georges Bracque. "Twin Steeds" by Giorgio de Chirico. "Taormina" by Raoul Dufy. "Abstraction" by John Miro, and a picture by Laurencin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ART SOCIETY ANNOUNCES ITS SECOND EXHIBITION | 3/13/1929 | See Source »

Since Nogales is a twin city, partly in Mexico and partly in Arizona, General Manuel Aguirre of the Nogales, Sonora, revolutionaries was soon called upon by Col Arthur M. Shipp, commander of the Nogales, Ariz., 25th U. S,. Infantry border patrol. Later, Col. Shipp said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Great Change | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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