Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Saito's Washington Embassy and Minister Ariyoshi's Peiping Legation are twin cornerstones of Japanese world diplomacy. Minister Ariyoshi was transferred from Brazil in 1932. Japan's contact man in her recent devious dealings with Chinese politicos, he seldom remains in one place very long but plies between the Japanese diplomatic and consular offices at Nanking, Peiping and Shanghai...
...regular service was on Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Burlington's famed Zephyr, which has been making a daily round-trip between Kansas City and Lincoln, Neb. since last Armistice Day, has upped traffic 153% in two months. Pleased with the experiment, Burlington put its new Zephyr Twins in service last month between Chicago and the Twin Cities on a 6½-hr. schedule. Zephyr Twins average 66 m.p.h., cost no more to run than large automobiles. Now building for Burlington is another stainless-steel streamliner, to be called Mark Twain, for the St. Louis-Burlington...
...defense of Japanese imperialism in the Far East, Mr. Rea summons the twin bogies of Communism and starvation. With the spread of Communism in China and with the constant penetration of Mongolia by Russian propaganda and cheap goods, Japan is faced with the grim possibility of a Sovietized Asia, whose markets will forever be closed to Japanese goods and whose revolutionary foreign policy will constitute a perpetual threat to the security of the Island Empire. Unless Japan can stop the onward rush of the Russian Bear, she is faced with the grim probability of starvation and defeat. While...
Fargo, N. Dak., made the proudest showing of any outside city. Fargo is the home of Mrs. John Alexander Jardine, the Federation's eager, grey-haired president. Fargo and its twin-city, Moorhead, Minn., contributed the week's lustiest singing. At Mrs. Jardine's suggestion the Amphion Chorus of 93 men traveled East. They represented 21 trades and professions, ranging from barbers and buttermakers to doctors and lawyers...
...Twin brothers, sons of a fisherman on a little island off Scotland's coast, suddenly discover that they hate each other dearly. Gavan falls in love with pretty, nitwitted Lucy Morrisy, but it is Duncan who enjoys her, and wins her love. When she is caught, she tells her hard-bitten mother that Gavan was her seducer. Gavan gets a thoroughgoing thrashing but he marries Lucy, which is what he thinks he wants. Too late he discovers his affinity in a less twittery creature, the solid Sarah. But when Duncan continues to cuckold him and Lucy hangs herself...