Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twin revolutions occurred respectively A) In the great gulf port of Vera Cruz State of Vera Cruz, 200 miles east of Mexico City and B) In Nogales, State of Sonora, famed drink & divorce boomtown on the U. S. Border, 1,000 miles northwest of Mexico City...
Died. The Earl of Durham, 74, famed English turfman, huntsman, landowner (30,000 acres); of influenza; in his ancestral Lambton Castle, Durham, England. He had held his title only five months, having succeeded his twin brother...
During the War his shoulder straps bore the twin bars, his blouse collar the twin wings of a captain of aviation, reserve corps, U. S. A. After the War he returned to Science, spied on rats and mice, noted inherited coloration and acquired traits, at the Carnegie Institute's Station for Experimental Evolution. In 1922, Dr. Little became President of the University of Maine...
...trial. Larger are the Keystone Patrician and the Chapman Airliner, both new developments. Each can carry 20 passengers and each shortly will make a transcontinental demonstration tour. Largest of course is Consolidated's new Admiral. Its wing spread is 100 feet, its body 60 feet long. Its twin motors carried it last week at more than 100 miles per hour. Waiting as a reward for the Navy tests was a commercial order for Consolidated...
...week-end excursions are boats made by Elco* and by A. C. F. (American Car & Foundry). Elco (boatbuilder for 36 years at Bayonne, N. J.) has a new sport model which combines cabin accommodations for four with a speed of 20 m. p. h. The Elco Fifty (a twin-screw 50-footer) and the A. C. F. Fifty-Four and Sixty-Eight are instances of the motor boat which has virtually graduated into the motor-yacht class...