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Word: twinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twin sons of jesting parents we are both "Benny." One of us Benny L(eft) and the other Benny R(ight). Known jointly as "the Bennies." We are not known severally at all, and as we grow we feel a progressive lack of individual personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Against the propagandist's subtle playing on the emotions, the writer recommends twin defenses, "experience of human nature" and an "independent humility." Both are acquired through a thorough study of history, he contends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Conant Hits Propagandists; "They Undermine Educator's Work" | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...fuselage shaped like an attenuated sting ray, which he called a Flying Flapjack. Last week he announced that his Flapjack was ready for tests, almost ready for mass production, would revolutionize aviation. At Vancouver's Pearson Field one afternoon unlicensed Test Pilot Sidney Monastes climbed aboard, tuned the twin 38-h.p. motors, taxied out for the start. The Flapjack roared, reared its tail into flying position, bobbled the length of the field like an angry bumblebee across a windowpane. When it hit a barbed-wire fence at the field's end, the Flapjack flipped over, came to ignominious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flapjack Flipped | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Sulloway will play in the number four position against Bill Rood twin brother of the Tar Heels' number one man. Langdon Gilkey will play Frank Farrell who has lost only two matches in three years of varsity competition down south. Chet Legg will face Charlie Ride of North Carolina. John Palfrey will probably play doubles on the Crimson team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Faces N.C. Invaders Here | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

...dead youth was the son of Town Counsel and Mrs. Fred W. Fisher of Winthrop. In addition to his parents he leaves a twin sister, Beatrice, 22-years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fisher Shoots Self at Home in Year's Third Harvard Suicide | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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