Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forward tandem, two double rear wheels), boasts a tail fin sporting the Union Jack, is called Thunderbolt and is described by courtesy as an automobile. Last week he took this gadget out on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, warmed up its 24-cylinder, 4,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce twin engines, and made a try at the 301 m.p.h. land speed record established by Sir Malcolm Campbell two years...
Referring to your telegram: That a female calf, twin to a male, is usually sterile, is no myth. Chicago University's Frank Lillie showed some years ago why this is true of cattle and not in species which produce litters, such as pigs and dogs. He found that the sterility and abnormal sex development of female of bovine mixed twins is due to a fusion of the blood vessels of the twin embryos' placental circulatory system, so that twin calves have a common blood supply. Sex differentiation begins in the male embryo earlier than in the female...
...that reason it is impossible to give your correspondent absolutely definite assurance either way. The odds are about 9-to-1 that if he raises the female twin she will be sterile. If she should prove to be fertile, he has won a long-shot bet-he will not have proved very much. That might be too bad, because his veterinarian would probably say "I told you so" instead of looking up the literature. Perhaps Lloyd's who are said to insure anything, might be asked to take a flier on insuring the heifer...
...Twin Changes...
...Angeles, Lois and Louise Coats, 24, identical twins, last October obtained interlocutory divorce decrees from two marines, Ray and Roy Sebring, identical twins. In December, Twins Coats married Herbert and Hubert Sharp, identical twins. Last fortnight Twins Coats obtained twin annulments from Twins Sharp on grounds that they married before their divorces were final, announced they would meet Twins Sebring in Bremerton, Wash., when they returned from duty in Honolulu, would remarry Twins Sebring, would set out on twin honeymoons to Twins Sebring's and Twins Coats' home town Oneida...