Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the fact that they're still wandering around in rather bedraggled and definitely civilian clothing, the apprentice seamen sailing on the twin "ships" Eliot and Kirkland are gradually getting their sea legs and learning that they're in the Navy...
Preacher's Son. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), smooth Bill Stevenson, 42, onetime Princeton track star, is a descendant of Jonathan Edwards, the New England preacher. His grandfather was a minister; his father, the late J. Ross Stevenson, was president of Princeton Theological Seminary. His twin brothers are missionaries; one is a prisoner of the Japs in Manila. Bill was graduated from Princeton in 1922, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, ran on the U.S. Olympic team which set a mile record in Paris in 1924. He and Bumpy lived with their two daughters in a remodeled...
...twin pillars of a sound colonial policy, Colonel Stanley observed weightily, are "educational advance and economic development." To strengthen the first pillar, he proposed to set up 30 annual two-year scholarships for promising colonials. To stiffen the second, he recommended fostering "secondary industries [for] processing native products [and] simple manufacturing, not requiring the import of large quantities of raw materials ... to make the colonies self-supporting." However, Britain would still draw semi-finished goods from the colonies for her specialized industries...
...twin-engined Beaufighters of Hugh Lloyd's coastal force hunted over the Tyrrhenian Sea between Sicily and Sardinia. In 24 hours they destroyed 20,000 tons of small shipping with torpedoes and bombs...
...water. His nerveless hands reached down, unbuckled the seat strap and his pneumatic life belt brought him to the surface. Too paralyzed to swim, he was lifted and dropped by the waves. Dimly he saw the two tail rudders "sticking up out of the water like twin tombstones." At last a wave carried him in far enough so that he could crawl up on the beach...