Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...75th floor of the Empire State Building a man heard the throbbing motors, turned quickly to the window, as he had many times before when planes passed. Coming straight at him out of the fog was a twin-engined bomber. It was banking slightly to the left...
...Yale report recognizes no twin fields of General and Special Education for college students; instead, it divides its instruction into Basic Studies, Distribution, and the Major, illustrating the qualities of compromise inherent in the plan. Despite the lack of unity of purpose, however, the Yale Committee has drawn up specific proposals which cover in many ways the same ground as do the plans of the Harvard group...
Tenderhearted as he is susceptible, the captain cannot bear to hurt the feelings of either woman, and is deftly bulldozed into marrying both of them. With the help of his relatively brainy first mate (Phil Silvers), he tries to keep both ends from meeting by inventing a twin brother. He also: 1) gets simultaneously involved in the Army and the Navy; 2) pretends suicide; 3) is arraigned as the murderer of his "twin." In the long run, through the kindness of Scripters Arthur Kober and Frank Gabrielson, he wiggles out of practically everything and sets off to serve his country...
...School for Town and Country Ministers" was the twin brainchild of Dean Henry Burton Trimble of Emory's Candler School of Theology, and of the school's Field Work Director Emmett...
...travelers who like to watch the country go by, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad announced a new "Vista Dome" car, to be put into operation next week on its diesel-powered "Zephyrs," running from Chicago to the Twin Cities, Denver and the West...