Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exeter, Andover's twin in terms of size, endowment, and number of Harvard admissions, is also suffering, although apparently not as badly. Exeter accepts about 30 per cent of its applicants, and three out of every five boys accepted to both Andover and Exeter choose Exeter...
...twin-engined Caribou swoops down from a brilliant blue sky and lands squealing on a pocket airstrip scooped out of volcanic rock or sunbaked sand. Hardly has it braked to a stop when a tall, bearded figure hops out, one hand holding his bright ima-ma, or turban, against the airstream, the other fingering the silver kunjar, or dagger, at his waist. Brown-eyed, gentle Qabus bin Said, 30, absolute monarch of Oman, has arrived on another tour of his sultanate (see color pages). Through such visits the Sultan hopes to strengthen the loyalty of local sheiks and villagers...
...three years in the Marine Corps, my Harvard background represented an ever present threat to young officers around me. Most of them felt an almost brutalized sense of their own inferiority in the presence of a Harvard man. Within the Marine Corps' sense of priorities, the earning of twin expert rifle and pistol badges stood on the same level of demonstrated merit. To the chagrin of many, I earned both of these coveted symbols of mastery...
CALL her Liz, she asked, or Sister Elizabeth, anything but Sister Lizzie, which everyone calls her, and makes her sound so young. Her father, a prosperous contractor who is now dead, and her mother came from Ireland in the early '20s; she was a twin in a family of nine. There is scant sympathy at home for her work in the peace movement. When her youngest brother brought the bail money to free her last week, he told her that the family thought that she had probably done everything the Government charged her with "and a lot more things...
Wasserman built the twin high-rise (22-story) buildings in Fresh Pond which house 500 moderate-to-low-income elderly and families. There is a waiting list for apartments in these eye-scrapers, where rent is proportionate to income and the elderly receive government subsidies. Having bought the land very cheap years ago. Wasserman profits well from the two Rindge buildings...