Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...term record of three wins and three losses at stake, the Debate Council will meet Amherst in a simultaneous "home and home" twin debate on the topic of federal world government and the United Nations...
...Army Air Forces set a record of sorts last week. From Hawaii's historic Hickam Field a P82 fighter (two P-51 Mustangs joined together) flew 4,978 miles to New York in 14 hrs., 33 min. The Twin Mustang had been stripped of guns and other military gear to carry 6½ tons of gasoline, turning a supposed military endurance test into something of a stunt flight...
...bulk of North American's business, however, is still in new military planes. Besides its twin-fuselaged P-82s (one of which was poised to try for a fighter-plane nonstop record by flying from Honolulu to New York), the company is testing a four-jet bomber, the B-45, and a Navy jet fighter expected to fly upwards of 500 m.p.h. Thanks to its backlog of nearly $180 million, North American had to spend so much on expansion that it lost $216,784 in the first quarter of its 1947 year (which ends in September) on a gross...
Dramatists' First Twin Bill...
...pretty well briefed in those twin evils with which Protestantism currently is striving; namely, secularism and denominationalism. There is a third evil. . . clericalism. The Protestant enterprise in the United States is preacher-ridden. What Protestantism speaks, the language, the voice and the meaning are clerical. What Protestantism does is planned by preachers. What Protestantism refuses to do is explained by preacher-reasons. The laity's vision, as is often alleged, may be foreshortened. But in the effort which he now must make to inch Protestantism forward, Mr. Taft will find himself more often afoul of the clergy...