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Word: twinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To David Whitmire Hearst, 23, youngest (with his twin, Randolph) son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; and onetime Show Girl Hope Chandler, 18; a daughter, their first child; Hearst's fourth grandchild; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Detroit, Agnes and Mary Bonahoom, twins who two years ago married twins, Alfred J. and Emil Bonahoom, in a twin marriage ceremony, and who lived in twin apartments, filed twin petitions for separate maintenance. Both were "unhappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...designer named Norman Dine announced that he had polled 500 wives, found that three out of four preferred double beds to twin beds. Reasons: sleeping with someone is "restful and reassuring"; "It is difficult to continue a quarrel in a double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Slickly engineered, with a minimum of turns and steep grades, the twin three-lane strips of the Autobahnen are separated by a hedged and grassed parkway 16 feet wide, which keeps traffic separated and cuts down headlight glare. Service stations, hotels, repair shops and rest stations are spaced along the highway with Teutonic regularity (26 miles between filling stations) and at even intervals there is a blackboard to call motorists to the phone for messages from home or summonses to emergency military duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Hitler Hobby | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Married. Claude Stroud, 31, younger (15 min.) half of the radio team of twin comics, Clarence & Claude; and Gloria Brewster, 20, elder (4 min.) half of the team of twin cinemactresses, Barbara & Gloria; in Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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