Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholic archbishop of Santa Fe banned the cult as barbaric. It now enjoys clerical toleration. Weakened but persistent, the Penitentes retreated to remote villages, continued their Holy Week rites, but stood by with carbines to ward off nosy gringos who were baffled but fascinated by the twin Spanish traits: a passionate sense of sin and a flair for cruelty...
Just Give Me Time. At LaGuardia Field, N.Y., Mrs. James Booras, christening her husband's new twin-engined plane, took resolute aim with a champagne bottle, fanned the air, fanned it again, fanned it 28. more times, at the 31st...
Viscountess Furness, twin sister of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt* and aunt of Mrs. Stokowski, flew over from Britain for a month's stay in the U.S., said she was coming back later to settle for good. She put up for a while with Sister Gloria at her Manhattan apartment...
...sound, and as they grew they prospered-thanks largely to three men. In St. Paul, a onetime schoolteacher named E. A. Van Steenwyk became a rampaging apostle of voluntary hospital insurance, tried to convert everyone he met, from elevator boys to bishops. By 1936 he had bullyragged 200,000 Twin Citizens into signing up. He went on to Philadelphia, became Blue Cross's model organizer...
Apparently oblivious to the twin acid-test games with Quonset and Boston University this week, Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity quintet coasted to its sixth straight victory Saturday evening when it smothered Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 67 to 44, in the losers...