Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head-resistance reduced to absolute minimum, has been loosely used to describe all manner of low-wing monoplanes and effectively streamlined craft. Last week at Boiling Field (Washington, D. C.) was flown a ship nearly approaching the ideal, an Army experimental observation plane built by Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker. Twin Curtiss Conqueror engines, 600 h. p. with small chemical-cooled radiators, are mounted inside the single thick tapered wing on either side the fuselage. In flight the landing gear can be retracted into the belly of the fuselage, like a bird's legs...
...something that stumped him, and besides, keeping the great 100,000-page ledgers of his business took up too much of his time. So Paul Bunyan was a very happy man the day he found John Rogers Inkslinger sitting bemused on a cliff with one foot damming up the Twin Rivers, and added him to his camp crew as chief bookkeeper, surveyor, inventor, doctor, and general efficiency expert. And Johnny Inkslinger was very glad to meet Paul Bunyan, too, despite that hero's carelessness in mistaking the great scribe's supply of fresh-sharpened pencils for a pine...
...these "motor vehicles" more than one-third are motorcycles. Although Berlin is as populous as (and more extensive than) Chicago, in pleasure cars she ranks down the scale with Omaha, Neb., which has 44,525. Chicago has 405,000 pleasure cars, almost ten times as many as her German twin in population...
...Three years, then, went by in the Rue Montmartre, to the monotonous rhythm of a never-flagging intensity. Elizabeth and Paul, made for childhood, continued to live on like the occupants of twin cradles. Gerard was in love with Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Paul adored and tortured each other. . . . The same violent nights, the same clammy mornings, the same long afternoons when the children became estrays, moles in the light of day. It ended up with Elizabeth and Gerard's going out together. Paul went out in quest of his own pleasures...
Engaged. Mary Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Idaho's Senator John Thomas; and Arthur J. Peavey of Twin Falls, Idaho...