Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward sent a snuff box of blue and gold enamel with his miniature on it. The Kaiser sent a bracelet set with a miniature of himself, a smaller twin of the one he had given me for christening the Meteor. The only difference was in the uniform that he had on, and that the gold was lighter and the diamonds around the miniature smaller in the one that I got for getting married. The present from the King of Italy was a mosaic table, so large and heavy that I have never been able...
...would like you to give recognition in your columns to Mrs. Bess M. Wilson of the Minneapolis Journal for her description of the Secretary of Labor, who recently visited the Twin Cities...
...Club.) And he was extraordinarily fussy about taking a brown-paper parcel into the cabin with him. The porter decided Mr. Smith's behavior was not ominous enough to warrant reporting. He slammed the cabin door shut and in a moment No. 23 roared away-a big twin-motored Boeing of the latest design-with its two passengers, its crew of two pilots and the usual attractive young stewardess. Three hours later No. 23 slid down to Cleveland on time, took off again with two added passengers: a young refrigerator salesman and a radio service man lately employed...
Vitamin D, the vitamin which controls the growth of bones, prevents rickets, is formed by sunlight acting on ergosterol, a vegetable substance. Chemical twin of ergosterol is cholesterol which is involved with the female sex hormone theelin. Sex hormones are intimately connected with growth, and so the "sterols" may be a foundation for all kinds of growth...
...20th day. She showed him how to sit up, walk, creep. For a while he did not learn very well, but when he reached the creeping stage he began to pick up his athletic tricks rapidly. To demonstrate the validity of this thesis Dr. McGraw let Johnny's twin develop like a traditional baby. Twin Jimmy cannot skate, refuses to climb down from any stand even two feet high. When in any predicament, he shows his sense of insecurity by turning to older people for help. Next step in Dr. Tilney's study of learning processes...