Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, an egg-bald Russian with a twin-pronged beard, spent a lifetime seeking peace and, somehow, disturbing everything he touched. Devoted followers thought he was a genius who could unify humanity through art. Loudmouthed Westbrook Pegler thought he was a quack who wanted to become "head" of Siberia...
...equipped with P-84s, expects to get delivery of the rest by July. Production of Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars, the U.S.A.F.'s other jet fighter, is already being tapered off. Manufacture of reciprocating-engine planes, such as Republic's Thunderbolt, North American's Mustang and Twin Mustang, has been cut back to little more than production of spare parts...
...half of the University's expenses, while income from the endowment fund provided another quarter. Only ten percent came from a category known as "gifts for immediate use," which are outright cash donations not involving capital and interest; the remainder of the income issued forth mysteriously from miscellaneous' twin, "other...
...Twin delegations of the Debate Council split a double-billed argument with Yale last night, simultaneously taking a decision in New Haven and losing one in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. The topic of the discussion, which Harvard argued in the negative here and in the affirmative at Yale, was "Resolved, That President Truman should be reelected...
...Twin teams from the Debate Council will tonight open this term's official debate schedule here and in New Haven on the subject of President Truman's reelection in 1948. The local end of the reciprocal discussion will take place in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room at 8:30 o'clock...