Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Mr. Insull is considered chiefly a Middle West utilitarian, proper ties along the Atlantic seaboard now loom in his picture, contribute about one-fifth of total earnings. First of his eastern moves was to acquire Twin State Gas & Electric (Maine, New Hampshire, New York & Vermont) in 1913. In 1927 he bought National Electric Power (not to be confused with Electric Bond & Share's National Power & Light) and embarked upon a rapid expansion in New England. Frustrated by Maine's laws against the export of power, he turned to developing Maine's industries to boost consumption. Last year a subsidiary...
Advocates of a continued "laissez-faire" policy with regard to the twin thefts that occurred in the University during the past week had their hopes somewhat dampened last night when it was learned that the clapper of the Memorial Hall bell, nor the stuffed animals belonging to the Lampoon, had been returned to their proper owners. Major Charles R. Apted '06 who has been carrying on investigations of the two cases, could not be reached during the early part of last evening, his absence leading many to think that the head of the Harvard police force was away working...
Engaged. Anne Marie Homer, one of the twin daughters of Contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty Homer and Composer Sidney Homer; and Robert Warner, son of the late president of Tennessee Eastern Electric Co., brother of onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy Edward Pearson Warner. The bride's eldest sister is the wife of Rev. Ernest Van Rensselaer Stires. eldest son of Bishop Stires of Long Island...
...building of the tower was urged by Poet Jeffers' wife, who thought the exercise would be good for her husband. The building has proved useful to the whole family, who have there their "silent rooms." To its two-room base, Garth Sherwood and Donnan Call, the Jeffers' twin sons, resort in rainy weather. On the floor above, Mrs. Jeffers, who is devoted to music. Irish folk-songs in particular, has installed a small organ. Poet Jeffers, to whom all music is "just noise." occupies, with a table and a chair, the tiny room above. Here in the mornings, when...
...experiments went on and every man who brought a new prescription was welcome as a brother. But this alchemy is, you know, only the material counterpart of a poet's craving for beauty, the eternal beauty. The makers of gold and the makers of verse, they are the twin creators that sway the world's secret desire for mystery, and what in my father was the genius of curiosity-the very essence of all scientific genius-in me is the desire for beauty...