Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's schedule sees Adams House pitted against Company D, while the ROTC unit will tackle Company I. Tomorrow Companies A and C, both undefeated, will clash in a postponed encounter. On Thursday Companies A and D will meet in one half of the daily twin bill while Companies B and C will complete the afternoon schedule...
...four 2,200-h.p. Wright engines (nearly twice the power of the B-17 Fortress) and each engine is equipped with twin turbo-superchargers for undiminished power at high altitude. The four-bladed propellers are 16 ft. 6 in. across, the biggest on any combat plane in service...
...fuselage length 98 ft., and the single tail fin (which has a strong family resemblance to the B-17's familiar tail fin) is 27 ft. high. The Superfortress departs' from previous Fortress custom in having tricycle landing gear -three sets of twin wheels-so that its fuselage, like that of the tricycle-geared Liberator, is tail-up and level on the ground...
...sight of so much suffering was unbearable. "He heard again that ghostly cough ; he saw again the poor white face, the terrible pool of blood." In Rome poet and painter had rooms in the Piazza, di Spagna, before a magnificent flight of steps that led upwards to the twin-towered Church of Santa Trinita de' Monti, overlooking a fountain built in the shape of a ship, and flower stalls packed with daffodils and mimosa. Sometimes Keats walked. Sometimes he puzzled over books in Italian. Sometimes he wrote to Fanny Brawne (the flirtatious girl he loved) or about her. Sometimes...
...Twin-motored R.A.F. Beaufighters with underwing rocket guns have been wreaking Buck Rogerish havoc among enemy convoys in the Aegean during the last six months. R.A.F. flyers say that rocket salvos hit like 6-inch naval guns, are far deadlier than bombs. Said one, of his latest convoy attack: "My salvo blew the whole stern away. I had to weave plenty to get out of the way of chunks of ship that came...