Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though there are 2,000,000 pairs of twins in the U. S., 30% of them identical, cases of identical twins who are able athletes are rare. Harvard had her famed hockey-playing Bigelows in 1928-29. Yale had her Driscolls nearly 20 years ago, one an oarsman, one a trackman, neither brilliant. Indiana State Teachers College had twin sisters named Sonafelt who were so anxious to have identical records in everything that one, a much better high diver than the other, would wriggle into her sister's place at swimming meets and dive for both. Best twin legend...
Patrol Squadron VP-6's new flying boats are called PBY-1 patrol bombers. With 1,100-h. p. Twin Row Wasp engines, retractable wing pontoons and clipper lines, they are the first twelve of 176 such ships ordered by the Navy from Consolidated Aircraft Corp...
...secretive Flyer Hughes in motion again was a rumor that someone was about to take a crack at his transcontinental record. Hustling out to Burbank from his home in Los Angeles after midnight, he rolled out his world-record racer, recently re-streamlined and given a 1,100-h.p. Twin Wasp Jr. so powerful that mechanics called the plane "a big engine with a saddle." At 2:14 a. m. he climbed into the "saddle," said he might land at Chicago, leaped into the dark. null his big motor thundering, he bored up through the heavy overcast...
...piled up in rows along the river bank will continue to mar the landscape until spring. This earth, taken from excavations in Arlington, will be spread along the bank to foster the growth of grass. The growing of grass and the building of a stone barrier are the twin measures being used by workers of the Maintenance Division of the Metropolitan District Commission to check crosion, beautify the river bank, and preserve the Business School...
Meantime her twin sister had gone to the U. S. and married. Lola followed, drifted west to a ranch. There she met a man she liked; it was mildly mutual, so they married. That job lasted four years, left Lola with a daughter and some alimony. In Hollywood where she now lives, she likes to pass the time of day with her neighbors, with the milkman. Talking with them, hearing their wondering comments on her ups & downs, gave her the good idea of putting it all on paper...