Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indies, they were coming to his home. They were coming to Semarang, the town on the Java coast where his father practiced medicine and where he was born 55 years ago. They were coming to the cool, ugly house in Batavia where he lived with his wife, his twin sons, his two daughters. The Japs were coming to the quiet inland kampongs, where Conrad Helfrich had many a trusting native friend, where many good brown sailors and soldiers had grown up for service in his ships...
Edgewood's station (a twin of Ridley Park's except for some differences in building materials) is a bright, clean-looking, boxlike structure faced with natural-finish redwood and brick, materials expected to keep their looks without maintenance for many years. On its track side, where an 8-ft. overhanging shed roof offers shelter, a huge plate-glass window gives waiting travelers a complete view of all incoming and outgoing trains...
...types of transport the Army favors are military versions of the Douglas DC-4, a big four-engine job originally designed to carry 42 passengers, and the twin-engined Curtiss Condor...
...Curtiss Condor III is the largest twin-engined military transport in the world. It has a speed of better than 200 m.p.h., can carry 50 fully equipped parachutists or an equivalent weight in light field artillery. It can fly the Atlantic with ease, as a British pilot demonstrated a few weeks ago. Fully loaded, it can make 1,500 miles nonstop. It is far superior to the Junkers 52, the transport the Nazis use most frequently, which has a range of 1,000 miles...
This tale of a neglected wife who poses as a seductive twin sister to win back her husband was called "a threat to the institution of marriage" by church and moral groups, who made M.G.M. take it back and wash its mouth out. Its entire effect was vitiated merely by inserting near the beginning a telephone scene wherein Melvyn Douglas discovers that the flame he is playing with is really his wife. From then on his adulterous activities become husbandly jesting acceptable to the thinnest- lipped moralist. The trouble with the picture now is that it not only fails...