Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conscientious English readers, accustomed to rely on both the Conservative London Times and the Liberal Manchester Guardian as twin pillars of upright journalism, were puzzled, pained. In Japan schoolchildren clutching Rising Sun flags paraded by the thousand through Tokyo, celebrating the Treaty of Changchun. "Ex Oriente Lux!" headlined Tokyo's erudite & patriotic Kokumin Shimbun. "Light comes from the East! Japan and Manchukuo have become the centre of the world with Japan standing as the Guide to Civilization. . . . What care we for the jealousy and oppression of the Western Powers? Whatever the persecution to be suffered and the sacrifices demanded...
...casual observer India and her problems present a confused tangle of issues, political and religious, imperial and native, which serves as background to Gandhi's personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...
...Camden, N. J. at New York Ship-building Corp.'s yards, an 5. S. Washington, twin sister of the Manhattan, will be launched next week...
...Italo Balbo, who looks enough like Dino Grandi to be his twin, is Minister of Air. Arpinati is Under Secretary of the Interior...
...Paulites abroad detest the time-honored quip: "I hear the Twin Cities are to be combined and will be called Minnehaha-'Minne' for Minneapolis and 'Haha' for St. Paul...