Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twin bugaboos of Mr. See were modern trends in education and modern trends in womanhood. In many a testy paragraph he inveighed against 1) the stupidity of school superintendents and pedagogs, who overtaxed their pupils' brains with useless study; 2) the brazen influence of women who demanded equal rights for an inferior sex. So copious and infuriated did Mr. See become that at length he composed a book, published it in 1928 with a bitter title: Schools. Sample thoughts...
Separate rooms are superior to double or twin beds...
...been spanned by land-planes flown by men, women, and once by a pilot flying blind. It has been spanned by a glider towed by a plane. Last week it was spanned for the first time by a flying boat-a twin-motored Consolidated PBY-1 of the "type used by the Navy on its various mass junkets to Hawaii (TIME...
With all the drop hammers of the world pounding on the anvils of war, the U.S.A. is not the quietest member of the chorus. Last week the U. S. Army placed the largest single order for military aircraft since the World War-177 twin-motored bombers costing $11,651,948.10. To Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif., already the world's largest aircraft factory with some 10,000 hands at work, went this huge contract, bringing the Douglas backlog of orders...
...marked the end of a grueling six-month search for his son-in-law, Pilot S. J. Samson. Last Dec. 14, Pilot Samson took off from Los Angeles on his regular run to Salt Lake City in a Western Air Express Boeing. After stopping at Las Vegas, Nev., the twin-motored transport droned on north into a wintry night and oblivion (TIME, Dec. 28). Aboard the plane, which last reported hitting 199 m.p.h. at 10,000 ft. under a "high overcast," were four passengers, a co-pilot and pretty Hostess Gladys Witt, whose marital indecisions had been making headlines. When...