Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with his equally long-haired twin brother Dr. Jean Piccard, also a stratosphere balloonist...
...Senator was rushed in & out of the fair grounds before he had a chance to admire a steer or sample a jar of piccalilli. He did visit a giveaway radio program, where he dutifully kissed the Toni (wave) Twins ("Which Twin Has the Toni...
...upriver, and the oil barges return empty; rivermen are now talking of building oil barges with return-trip deck space for autos. The rest of the traffic is in other bulk products which do not have to be moved rapidly. Downriver, Pittsburgh and Chicago ship steel, the Twin Cities grain. Upriver come cotton, sulphur and scrap from the South, coffee and sisal from Latin America...
Above Lake Tanganyika's blue waters the Bahutu or Wahutu (singular Muhutu) were minding their own business 300 years ago when the Batutsi or Watusi (singular: Mututsi) wandered in, probably from Abyssinia. The Batutsi announced that hereafter they would run the twin kingdoms of Ruanda-Urundi, and look after the Bahutu. Because the Batutsi brought with them wondrous long-horned cattle and because they were seven feet tall, the Bahutu did not argue the point...
...more important for both Homewood (the university) and Hospital (the medical school), Johns Hopkins would be getting a man with the twin talents of a scientist and administrator. Said retiring President Isaiah Bowman: "Nothing could please me more...