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Word: twinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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PHILOPENA-Henry Kitchell Webster-Bobbs Merrill ($2). Identical twin sisters are brought up separately, differently. Ten months after Celia's marriage, to which Cynthia could not go, she sends for Cynthia. Cynthia has no husband. Celia's husband is away. Will Cynthia please be Celia, just for 48 hours with no questions asked? It is very pressing. Very well, then. . . . Next day Cynthia (now Celia) clutches her newspaper. Celia (now Cynthia) is in a hospital, seriously smashed, unconscious. Ambiguous encounters, a detective, a furtive maid, mesh Cynthia-Celia in mystery. Apparently Celia-Cynthia is a criminal. Cynthia-Celia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...general tendencies not only of history in its narrow sense, but of human activity as a whole. Even the ancient China of 500 B.C. had a romantic rebound from classicism with a feeling kindred to that of the contemporary West, and its prophet in Chuang-Tzn, the spiritual twin of Rousseau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/25/1927 | See Source »

Sentinel. Journalists ejaculated last summer when Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett of several newspapers, notably the Rochester Times-Union, in the lush butter & egg, and grape juice counties of New York, reached far out and bought the Sentinel, largest daily in Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23). That twin town, that tobacco-boom town, must certainly be a "comer" if Frank Ernest Gannett was goin? in there with a newspaper, they thought. But either he was mistaken, or it was too fast a boom town for even Frank Ernest Gannett to keep up with, or he made a good turnover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Epidemic | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...length, though Saradvat ignored the nymph, Indra was able by a miracle to effect his undoing. "A slight convulsion shook the form of Saradvat," and "from himself sprang twin children, a boy and a girl, Drona and Kirpa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5,000th Birthday | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...from the American Car and Foundry Co., a cruiser as neat as a destroyer, with a cool wind always blowing on its deck and a neat shaving of water peeling away from its bow. Perhaps it is a 35-foot cruiser you want, or a 68-foot cruiser with twin screws. It all depends. The 68-foot cruisers have two cabins, an outside cabin with an awning and an inside cabin whose leather benches can be made up as bunks at night. They have a little dining-room with benches on four sides, a bathroom up in the bow with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motor Boats | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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