Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with pilots attacked England. On two successive nights small packs of German raiders ranged north and south, dropping bombs, strafing trains and towns. The weekend "scalded cat" (hit-and-run) forays were effective mainly as outlets for Nazi hatred, but they showed a new type of nasty cat: the twin-jetted, 500-mile-an-hour Messerschmitt 262-A, carrying two 250-lb. bombs...
...Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, which opens next fortnight with a show of 219 invited works. The Corcoran Biennial carries four sizable awards. This year's Second Prize, $1,500, went to Malvin Marr Albright who signs his work "Zsissly," to keep from being confused with his twin brother, famed Chicago Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright. Marsh's first-prizewinner raised an occasional eyebrow, lowbrow and highbrow; they lowered to normal at Zsissly-Albright's Deer Isle, Maine, a faithful-to-nature landscape...
Born. To Leopold Godowsky Jr., 44, co-inventor of Kodachrome color film and son of the late famed pianist-composer; and Frances Gershwin Godowsky, 37, sister of the late Composer George Gershwin: twin daughters, their third and fourth children; in Manhattan. Names: Georga (after her uncle) and Nayna. Weights...
...must not exist in Egypt." Behind his bravado was the Premier's knowledge that a joint Anglo-Egyptian company was in the making to operate Egypt's airfields after the war. With well-timed tact the British Government had sent King Farouk his handsomest birthday gift: a twin-engined, air-conditioned cabin plane from the Royal Air Force...
...would not. Although his frontal thrust toward the heart of the Reich made heartening headlines, military analysts watched his northern wing with increasing interest. That wing had probed to within 20 miles of Stettin. Paradoxically it was a greater threat to Berlin than the shorter thrust through the twin Oder River fortresses of Frankfurt and Küstrin, where the Germans had chosen to make an armored stand...