Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance of the organization lies in its possible effect upon public opinion. If the Veterans of Future Wars can set in motion the latent forces that will smash the twin idols of patriotism and privilege too long worshipped in this country, their service will have been a real one. The college students of today form the electorate of tomorrow, and what they hope to accomplish now by ridicule may be done later with stronger weapons...
...case it interests you the word "gimbals" (always plural) is derived from the old French "gemel" meaning a twin, and they may be defined "as two brass rings, which move within each other, each perpendicularly to its plane...
Since 1932, when twin-engined, low-wing monoplanes became dominant in U. S. air transport, United Air Lines has steadily patronized Boeing, while its rivals, American and TWAirlines, have done most of their buying from Douglas. Last week United also became a patron of Douglas by ordering ten of the huge, 24-passenger Douglas Sleeper Transports (DST), of which American already has 20 on the way. Price...
...gleaming rails-the twin steel bands Of Commerce-spanning verdant isles, Running o'er the sea miles on miles; In old Key West their mission ends, Dreadnoughts to her each nation sends And wealth & fame all this portends...
Sixty miles southwest of Munich, on the fringe of the Bavarian Alps, lie the twin villages of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The houses have brightly painted walls. The inns have tiled stoves in the dining rooms. Woodcutters in green felt hats, puffing pipes that reach down to their waists, use oxcarts to haul pine logs down the snowy mountain roads. Last week the wintry quiet of Garmisch-Partenkirchen was pleasantly shattered by an event which mystified the woodcutters as much as it delighted the innkeepers by accounting for the presence in the town of some 50,000 visitors, including Realmleader Hitler himself...