Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Downers Grove, Ill., the Burlington Railroad's Twin City Zephyr hit a twelve-ton grader which, seconds before, had fallen from a flat car on a westbound freight. The engine and all seven cars were derailed. Two cars smashed into the Downers Grove station. Two died; 36 were injured...
...Twin Purposes. The Commission had worked for three months under Assistant Attorney General A. Devitt Vanech, a billiard-bald lawyer from Connecticut with 14 years' service in the Justice Department. Other members represented the State, Treasury, War & Navy Departments and the Civil Service Commission...
...paintings and sketches in the Spring Exhibition of Montreal's Art Association last week, most galleryites eagerly sought out two. Titled Twin Isles, B.C. and The Norfolk Broads, England, they were both done by Governor General Alexander, who has heretofore been shy about letting the public see his amateur work. In their first view in Canada, critics and artists were not impressed, but other Canadians thought the G.G.'s work clever and charming...
...Norfolk Broads, the better of the two (painted in February 1946), is a melancholy landscape against a grey-green, threatening sky. One artist complained that the windmill in the painting looked "pasted on." Twin Isles, a British Columbia scene, is a splashy oil of a stretch of forest full of color-yellow, blue, and red flowers, iridescent water and a yellow sky. One professional artist, appraising the lavish use of color, said dryly that the G.G. "must get a great deal of pleasure out of painting...
...team only three have demonstrated enough to be assured of a starting berth. In the lead of the trio will be last year's co-captain, midfielder Ned Dewey, who played large amounts of tackle for Dick Harlow last fall. Right up with Dewey will be his football tackle twin, Ed Davis, a defenseman on the 1943 team. Rounding out the experienced threesome, Jay Hurley, a letterman back from the 1942 and 1943 teams can do much to bolster last year's woefully weak attack...