Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action in the chase after the crown now held by Bucky Harrison's Kirkland House gridders will keep up at a furious pace with two more games scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Lowell House will meet the defending champs in one tilt of the afternoon's twin bill and Winthrop will round out the week's schedule against Leverett House's rapid rabbits...
Ever since the Pharaohs, men have been getting cleverer & cleverer at making imitation gems. Almost every precious stone now has a man-made twin. Last week the Linde Air Products Co. (a unit of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp.) announced that it had finally produced "star" sapphires and rubies...
Model at Work. Sophie and Adam live with her son, Jay Rossbach (by Sophie's first marriage), in a modernized four-story house on Manhattan's East 64th Street. (Their twin beds have "Sophie" and "Adam" cosily embroidered on the pillowslips.) Sophie's hobbies are collecting china dogs and raising tulips and rhododendrons in the small garden in the rear. They also lease a small, seven-room country house near Red Bank...
...Washington last week a slender, dark girl saw with her own eyes that Persia had powerful friends in the U.S. Several hundred people thronged the elegant, red brick Persian Embassy to shake hands with Her Imperial Highness Ashraf Pahlevi, twin sister of Persia's ruling Shah. President Truman received her in the White House, and Bess Truman was there too. This week the State Department scheduled a big, brilliant reception...
...thought he heard a baby's cry issuing from the abdomen of a maternity patient. The doctor listened carefully, finally decided that it was, indeed, a baby's cry. An hour later, still wailing lustily, the infant girl was born (and was followed by an unprotesting twin sister). Dr. Crotty had called in other doctors, and so had witnesses to vouch for his story...