Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ithacans, boasting the best team batting average in the league--a healthy 305 before its twin bill with Yale--moved out of the cellar at New Haven yesterday as a result of an even split with the Elis. The Crimson now lies a half-game behind the Bulldogs, and two Harvard victories today, coupled with a win by Penn over Yale at Philadelphia, would return Coach Dolph Samborski's forces to first place...
...Deacon nine swept both ends of yesterday's twin bill, routing Leverett by a distinctive 23 to 2 margin and claiming the nightcap over Dunster by default. Bucky Harrison and Sam Bush shared the hurling duties, while Jerry Glynn contributed a home run to the cause. In the third game played, Stan Johnson pitched Adams House to its third victory in two days, using his curve ball effectively to set down Lowell...
Both games will be of seven-inning length, and the opener gets under way at 2:30 o'clock. With fair weather predicted, the first local twin bill since 1942 may see a fair turnout of undergraduates, whose attendance at previous Crimson diamond engagements has been something less than en masse...
...without warning also went about 1,000 other Corporation of London workers-market and street cleaners, rubbish collectors, gravediggers. At 7 o'clock one evening the twin bascules* of Tower Bridge went up, but not because a Thames ship tooted for passage through. The 70 men who operate the drawbridge in shifts had also joined the wildcat sympathy strike over George Turner's three hooks...
...liabilities of $33,772.77. Actor Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney, who had been spending his weekends in jail for boozing, fought his brother in the street over a girl and ended up with 90 days on the road gang. Columbia Pictures, on complaint of British censors, had to reshoot a twin-bed scene between Franchot Tone and Lucille Ball-with the beds moved a decent twelve inches apart...