Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twin Scourges." Why did Mr. Stimson pick Liberia from the list of lands in which one form or another of slavery still exists?? Plainly because U. S. blacks founded the Republic in 1847, named it "Liberty" (Liberia), named their capital Monrovia, after U. S. President James Monroe...
Nash joins Rolls-Royce in the field of twin-ignition motors, similar to those of airplanes. Other developments...
...little harbor of Bolama on the west coast of Africa last week glided 14 Savoia-Marchetti flying boats. Led by Italy's 34-year-old air minister, General Italo Balbo, they had flown in four stages from Orbetello, near Rome. Now mechanics swarmed over the ships-great twin-hulled craft, each with two 500-h. p. Fiat engines-preparing twelve of them for a single flight of 1,860 mi. to Natal, Brazil. In formation of four triads, each designated by a wing-color (red, black, green, white) and each plane manned by a crew of four, the fleet...
...heredity or environment? Johannes Lange is a German and therefore methodical. He is a criminologist and therefore curious about human behavior. Lange had heard many an argument about heredity v. environment, knew that Sir Francis Gallon in 1876 had tried to show heredity prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom had a criminal record. When the dust of research settled, Herr Lange...
Those interested in fencing will have an opportunity to see an exhibition in the fencing room of the Indoor Athletic Building on Friday, December 12, at 8.30 o'clock. Notables engaging in this exhibition are E.L. Lane '24, and his twin brother, former captain E.H. Lane '24, who were members of the team that captured the Intercollegiate Fencing Championship in 1924. As a further attraction, Coach Peroy, former Olympic and European star, will meet Robert Grasson, fencing coach at Yale...