Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Data for determining the structure, shape, temperature, motion (if any) and "coronium" (unknown constituent element) of the flame-fringed corona-good photographs obtained with cameras up to 62 ft. long. Data to check Einstein's theory of "bent light," obtainable by photographing stars near the sun with a twin-lens camera- doubtful photographs taken. Data on lunar motion, obtainable by noting whether or not the eclipse occurred exactly on schedule (the eclipse seen by the western hemisphere last year [TIME, Feb 21 was 5 sec. later than expected, indicating some uncalculated gravity pull or other irregular influence)-unreported...
...post-cards consist of four views of the Holden twins, Lionel and Mower Halls. Two of the pictures show the twin dormitories from Massachusetts Avenue, while the other two show the buildings from the enclosure of Lionel, Mower, and Holden Chapel. The postals show unusually clear views of the buildings, and all the architectural features of Harvard's newest and most up-to-date dormitories...
...such circumstance could be brought forward to extenuate the revolting offense perpetrated two days later by the Hearst Evening Journal. A life-beaten, despairing, undernourished Jew, one David Belinsky, deserted by his wife, had taken the lives of his tiny twin boys and committed suicide. The Journal reporter hurried to the Broad Street Hospital, where the two babies-five months old-were lying side by side after they had been pronounced dead. He took their picture as they lay there- the dry mouths contorted in the gape of their last, desperate expiration, their heads twisted sidewise on the pillow. ISADORE...
Frederick E. Techemaker of Indianapolis, who lost twin sons on the S-51, said: "I am proud that my sons were serving their country when they died. I think the Navy is the finest possible life for travel." any young man who wishes to Later the engine room hatch was cut open and three bodies were taken out by divers. Another diver with an electrical device burned a hole in the forward torpedo room.*That also was flooded. All hope was gone...
...glass-enameled steel goods ("No, madam," said the guardian of a huge sea-blue bowl of this material, "we did not make the goldfish"), monstrous cauldrons and crushers and carborundum refractories that industrial chemists use in their vast necromancies. A glum coterie stood before ranged vials of "industrial alcohols." Twin spirals of galvanized iron whirled at different speeds in glassed boxes, proving to the eye how much less hot air is lost from heat pipes when they are properly swaddled. Before the Anaconda Copper Co.'s glittering display, the crowds milled thickly: an ingot of solid gold! A bottle...