Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sarah Easton, a rawboned, middle-aged woman with an eroded face, was "raised hard." She lives with her moon-faced husband and their 16-year-old twin daughters in a neat, sagging one-room shack near Raleigh, N. C. They live on $4 or $5 a week, remember good times when they had $12. They own a 1924 Dodge but can't afford to run it. Years ago, discouraged by debts and annual babies, John started drinking "like a hog in a bucket of slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage...
...their eyes have at long last lingered on the historic precincts of Oxford and Cambridge. The revolutionary plan which they consequently sketched and which appears in the current athletic report is nothing more nor less than an approximation to the system of athletic relationships which exist in the twin sultans of English learning...
...which you give Pan American's new air fares San Francisco to Honolulu and San Francisco to Hong Kong, you say "comparative boat fares $215, $425." The minimum first class fares on the Matson Line from San Francisco to Honolulu on the Lurline, Mariposa, and Monterey (in a twin-bedded, inside, double room with private toilet) is $125. Matsonia fares are the same but minimum accommodations have no private toilet...
Rupert Lewis was pounding along the smooth Jackson-Vicksburg highway in his truck one night last week, trailing a car ahead. Suddenly the twin taillights in front of him melted into the road, disappeared. Driver Lewis caught a quick glimpse of a black gap in the concrete before his own truck plunged. The lights went out, water rushed into the cab. He smashed a window, somehow came up in a turgid flood...
...continued European crisis was. Markets were nervous. Businessmen cut their buying for the future so low that three new indexes of inventories published by the National Industrial Conference Board touched the lowest point since May 1937. Most cheerful fact of the week (to businessmen): the sales ratio of twin beds to double beds was up from...