Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution to these twin problems is a modification of the tutorial system. All men should be required to do tutorial work during the Sophomore year. At the end of this period, all honor men who desire tutorial should be picked out to continue during Junior and Senior year with their tutors just as at present. Such men should be designated distinctly and separated from the rest of the College. All others should be officially dropped from the tutorial system, assigned to an adviser, and most important, be required to take an extra course for a degree...
...Italian Cabinet, all in Fascist trimmings & trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...
Under reporters' excited queries Director Hoover declared the Department of Justice had for two months been hot on the trail of Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, wanted for robbery, kidnapping and murder. Few days before the Karpis capture Director Hoover chartered a twin-motored Douglas transport plane in New York, flew to New Orleans, told his pilots to be on instant call at an inconspicuous hotel...
Albertina and Genevieve "are close companions and, while simple in many ways, exhibit a certain amount of sharpness and craftiness of an unexpected type. . . . One of these twins has an illegitimate baby girl of 2 years, but neither the other members of the family nor any outsider knows which twin is the mother. The only remark that can be elicited from the pair of them is: 'We have one baby between...
Meeting in Washington for their "Continental Congress," the D. A. R. have given the country encouraging signs that after all America is going to be saved. As the bulbous defenders of our liberties meet to take stock of the state of their organization, all considerations of the twin menace of Russia and pacifism are overshadowed by a genuine American tragedy: the membership of the D. A. R. has slid downhill like a 1929 ticker tape, with 25,000 fewer on the rolls than eight years...