Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angel Cake. To be the first licensed woman balloonist and the first of her sex to enter the stratosphere is the ambition of Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, wife of Professor Jean Piccard, twin brother of Stratonaut Auguste. A Bryn Mawr graduate, holder of a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Mrs. Piccard is no amateur scientist. To win her license she must make three balloon flights with an instructor, one solo flight by day, one at night...
That doesn't look too good, especially since the twin Yale games three weeks hence will decide Harvard's place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League as well as the traditional Crimson-Blue championship. The only change in the League on Saturday was Cornell's removal from first place thanks to a 3-1 win by Dartmouth. That puts Pennsylvania at the top with .625, Cornell and Columbia next with 600 each, Harvard fourth with .571, Dartmouth fifth with .428, and then Yale with...
That cycle of naughty dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room proved a boon to Hugh O'Connell. He was the drunk who always went to bed in the wrong room. In this time-tested sequence, he proudly recalls one trick which never failed to convulse his audience. Slowly pulling off his pants he would fling them into the chandelier. ''After that," he says, ''I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." The Racket (1927) and Gentlemen...
Capital Stock and Excess Profits. A tax of 1/10% on declared value of capital stock and a tax of 5% on corporate earnings in excess of 12% on declared capital. (By the old law these twin taxes would have ended June 30.) Increased revenue...
With the leadership of the Eastern Intercollegiate League at stake the Varsity will stage a twin bill with Pennsylvania this afternoon at Soldiers Field. When the first game begins at 2.30 o'clock Captain Eddie Loughlin will probably be on the mound, with Drib Braggiotti slated to relieve him for the last half of the afternoon...