Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnstown Flood was the big U. S. news when Robert Charles Watson and his twin brother, William George, each five-foot-four, alike as two Dromios, set out from home one summer morning in 1889 to look for their first jobs. They met at noon at "Four Corners" in downtown Rochester, N. Y. Rob had landed a $10-a-month job as messenger for the Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit Co. Bill had a $10-a-month job as messenger for the Commercial National Bank...
There had been altogether too much discussion, it was said, about who should succeed Il Duce, Dino Grandi or his bearded "twin," Italo Balbo, leader of the famed mass flight to the Chicago Fair. Grandi was "exiled" as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in 1933 and Hero Balbo was made Governor of Libya, in which hot and barren land he sits to this day. Last week Ambassador Count Grandi was recalled from London to become Minister of Justice, and observers wondered whether he had not again been kicked upstairs...
Their pride & joy resembled the 14-cylinder, 1,200-h.p. Twin-Wasp motor but had four more cylinders, some 50% more horsepower, about the same dimensions. Secret-of-success: through trial & error engineers had learned to cool high-powered air-cooled engines more efficiently, thus were able to clump more cylinders around a single crankshaft. Better cooling also made it possible to increase cylinder pressures, step up speed of piston strokes...
Born. To Thomas Hitchcock Jr., 39, world's No. 1 polo player; and Margaret Mellon Laughlin Hitchcock, 38, grandniece of the late Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon; twin sons, their third and fourth children. Weights: 7 Ib. 8 oz. and 7 Ib. 10 oz. Names: Thomas and William...
...heir, 17-year-old General Dilip Rai, came to special lessons redolent with perfume. Soon the nuns found their work too absorbing. Sister Phillippa's request for transfer, because she had put her garden before her religious life, gave the first warning. But it took the twin tragedy of death in convent and village before Sister Clodagh admitted her mistake, asked for recall...