Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Africa, but took the U. S. name of Wentworth Arthur Matthew. Rabbi Matthew is a D. D. from the University of Berlin, has studied in Palestine's Tel Aviv and at the Pittsburgh Bible Institute. He believes that black Jews are descended from Jacob, white from Esau, twin sons of Isaac, and that he in particular is of the Tribe of Judah since he bears racial markings mentioned in the Bible-a gap between his upper front teeth, big toes that overlap his foretoes. Although only 600 Harlemites go to Rabbi Matthew's synagog, he believes...
...Twin keystones of the U. S. liberal weekly press are the 23-year-old New Republic and the 72-year-old Nation. Each sells for 15?, each is published in Manhattan. Outsiders are likely to credit the Nation with having a little more wallop than the New Republic, the New Republic with having a little finer literary quality than the Nation. Politically they are not far apart. According to Editor-Owner Freda Kirchwey, the Nation "has followed a left-liberal policy all the way through, and it has shifted somewhat further to the left as times have changed...
Flying a stripped-down, hump-backed Seversky pursuit plane powered by a Twin Wasp Jr. engine, Fuller was first to reach Cleveland, continued on non-stop to Bendix, N. J., the famed old airport of Teterboro where Vincent Bendix now has headquarters. For this Pilot Fuller won $13,000. His cross-country time was 9 hr. 44 min. 43 sec., fastest in Bendix history but below the 7 hr. 28 min. 25 sec. record held by wealthy Sportsman Howard Hughes. Deafened and groggy, Winner Fuller called for a bottle of soda pop, repaired to a Coney Island hotel. A thick...
Spurred by Curtiss-Wright's success, Hamilton Standard last week revealed that it too has a full-feathering prop. Worked by hydraulic pressure, the Hamilton blade has been ordered in small quantities by United and American Airlines for twin-motored use, by Pan American for its vast four-motored Boeing Clippers now abuilding in Seattle...
Meanwhile, in Spain the international civil war had been going on so long (nearly 14 months) that the 400-odd newspapermen covering it were footsore, seat-sore and weary. The novelty had worn off. The twin bogies of communication and censorship had cut down the number of scoops. With professional envy the correspondents in Spain were eying China, where their colleagues were stealing the headlines. But Spain from the press standpoint presented a far more significant job, for in Spain, the press was tackling the day-in, day-out job of covering a modern...