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Word: twinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spacing. In Warsaw, Mo., Mrs. Leonard Howe gave birth to a daughter. Next day she bore her twin in Kansas City-125 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 19, 1943 | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...Algiers a twin-engined Lockheed Hudson named "Paris" brought tall, haughty General de Gaulle for conference with General Giraud, who announced: "We start work today. It is time not for speeches but for action, for France is awaiting us." The escape of General Alphonse Joseph Georges to North Africa recalls the report that Giraud told De Gaulle some time ago that he would get a five-star general out of France at the proper moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WAR OF NERVES: The Proper Moment | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...alone in a luxurious rented house in Mexico City's suburb of Chapultepec. He affects Byronic collars, horn rimmed harlequin spectacles, and usually looks fatigued. He is proud of a sumptuous gold hand-carved wrist watch given him last New Year's by President Avila Camacho. Its twin was presented to President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mexican Meistersinger | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Japs sent two waves of twin-engined bombers to the area, presumably from Paramoshiri or an aircraft carrier. They did no damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ALEUTIANS: Victory on Attu | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...from a Solomons base streaked 16 twin-tailed Army Lightning fighters, feathering their own wind-blown wakes as they hugged the water to stay out of the beams of Jap radiodetectors. Near the enemy base at Kahili, twelve of the pilots horsed back on their wheels, ripped skyward with whining turbosuperchargers to give top cover. The four near the water bored on, found unexpected game: three Jap bombers waddling home with a heavy cover of Zeros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: The Younger Generation | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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