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Word: twin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dartmouth bargain basement special with be the first of two twin bills to be seen on the Crimson diamond this spring. Coach Dolph Samborski's forces will meet Cornell in two games on Saturday, May 24, a move necessitated by the postponement of a game at Ithaca last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Rained Out, Sets Twin Bill Here with Dartmouth Next Week | 5/8/1947 | See Source »

Over Georgia's Muscogee County Airport, nine miles northeast of Columbus, a twin-engined plane circled and headed in for a landing. At the controls sat Delta Air Lines operations vice president, George R. Gushing, 48, a veteran pilot. Gushing and seven other Delta men (including Legal Adviser Lindley W. Camp, 52, longtime political crony of the late Gene Talmadge) were inspecting a network of newly acquired Georgia-Texas routes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Shockingly Obvious | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Surprise. Near Liberty, Mo., homecoming Walter Pearson was greeted by his three-year-old son with the announcement: "We got a lot of sisters"; rushed into the living room to find wife Theda, 24, peeling potatoes and displaying twin daughters born two hours earlier. Explained Mrs. Pearson, who wasn't expecting until June: "I scarcely got to the daybed when-there was the baby. That second one sure was a surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Instead, Oppy went back to his twin professorships in theoretical physics at the University of California and Cal Tech. On the side, he helped draft the Lilien-thal-Acheson report, since January has headed the committee of distinguished scientists advising the Atomic Energy Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oppy's Retreat | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Youth Movement. In Jamaica, N.Y., Mary Franzen and Katherine Kirschoch, twin sisters, turned up at a dance studio, speedily caught on to the intricate steps of the rumba in their half-hour lesson, their first in 92 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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