Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twin beds and separate bedrooms partly responsible for the U.S.'s unhappy marriages and high divorce rate? M. F. Ashley Montague, British-born anthropologist and author, thinks they may be. In the current issue of Psychiatry, he writes...
...near Minneapolis, the actual mileage from Rosemount to the center of the loop in Saint Paul is approximately three miles less than from Rosemount to the center of the loop in Minneapolis. From the center of the project to the center of the loop of each of the Twin Cities is probably four miles closer to Saint Paul. Generally, this has been considered a Saint Paul project...
...Large and beautiful is Minneapolis. Large (but a little smaller) and beautiful is Saint Paul. All hail to Minnesota's Twin Cities-whom TIME knows better than to get between...
...supply a diversion for an attempted breakout from their pocket in northwestern Leyte, the enemy dropped parachutists from a score of planes (twin-engined transports resembling the DC-3) in the area west of Dulag, and especially around Burauen airfield. U.S. antiaircraft destroyed some of the planes, but about 200 paratroopers landed. Under Jap uniforms, some wore civilian clothes...
...Returning from Paramushiro, the pilot of a twin-engined Navy Ventura bomber found that flak had holed the hydraulic-pressure system; there was not enough fluid left to lower the landing flaps. A machinist's mate used the crew's hoard of orange juice and coffee to refill the hydraulic reservoir. It worked...