Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 1936 most of the building, including one of the ugly twin towers, burned to the ground. But the North Tower remained. Recently the neighborhood began to think the Luftwaffe was using the tower as a landmark. The Supply Ministry also wanted its 840 tons of wrought and cast iron. So, one day last week, engineers packed 120 Ib. of gelignite against one side of the tower, touched it off, and watched this appendix of Victorian days topple...
Waldstein, Crimson pitching discovery, when he takes the mound against the Big Red of Cornell in the first game of a twin bill scheduled for tomorrow afternoon on the diamond overlooking Lake Cayuga...
...number of veterans in the dashes, hurdles, and shot put make these the currently powerful events. Sprinting in the 100 and 200 will be Doug Pirnie, recently crowned unofficial college dash champion by virtue of his twin win in the Handicaps Saturday, and Charley Smith, whose promising showing of two years ago was slowed up by leg injuries last season. These two ten-second men will be supported by last year's Freshman dash star, Bob Trainor...
They wrote like two sage old Romans from twin centers of the later empire. Their interest was in philosophy, literature, in the arcana of their craft, in their misfortunes and ailments (once Holmes slipped on a piece of ice, again Pollock was struck by a bicyclist), in Washington heat and London fog, in the wonder that returning spring has for aging men. The year the Japanese sank the Russian fleet at Tsushima, Pollock dropped Holmes a postcard: "Certainly I believe you are as real as I am, but, as you are ejusdem generis with me, that does not make...
None of the games were a part of regular league competition, with the exception of the rained out Penn game, which will turn up later in the season as half of a twin bill. Next on the list of games is the contest with Army this Saturday, and on Monday formal league play begins when the team takes on Boston University...