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Word: twinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rosie ("Dolly Sisters") Dolly landed at Manhattan last week with her new Dominion husband, Mortimer Davis Jr., tobacco scion. Asked about the amazing luck of herself and twin-sister Jennie, at the baccarat tables in Cannes (TIME, March 12), Mrs. Davis ruefully admitted that luck has turned against Jennie, who has now lost the whole of a spectacular win totaling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...head, to hunt down the outlaw Mars. Meanwhile America is preparing a great navy building program with one hand while with the other she pens with dove's quill resolutions for Pan-American Conferences and Franco-American treaties of amity. Meanwhile the paradox at home has an international twin; only one obstacle of size stands in the way of a multilateral treaty outlawing war among the great powers. That obstacle is the League of Nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELEAGUERED | 3/3/1928 | See Source »

Born. To Dr. and Mrs. William Howell Riser Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., twin children; boy, girl. Mrs. Riser's father is John Huston Finley, famed associate editor of the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Born. To Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, and Bernard F. Gimbel, president of Gimbel Brothers, Inc. (famed Manhattan, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh department stores); twin sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...required is that American warship building parallel the intensive program now being pursued in England. It is a supposition that parallel lines and navies never meet. A maritime empire with turbulent peoples spread over the world, Great Britain uses such a navy for shepherding its Hocks; its twin in the United States is an expensive and nearly useless watch-dog. Because of the failure of pacifistic statesmanship, nearly nine-tenths of the country's revenue is poured down the gullet of Mars. But even this could be borne, as it has been borne, if it were not for the alarming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DOGS OF WAR | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

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