Word: twins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universally underestimated. Suddenly, last August, at the hour of Wu's northern triumph the Cantonese struck at his war base, the Yangtze valley. The troops of their "mystery army" poured northward under Super-Tu-chun Chang Kaishek. Too late Wu rushed southward to defend Hankow and Wuchang-his twin strongholds on either bank of the Yangtze. Hankow fell at once. Wuchang has ever since been cruelly besieged. Reputedly 10,000 Wuchangese have died of starvation. Last week the besiegers came to terms with the besieged. The cycle of revolution which began a decade and a half ago has ringed...
...these men possess in addition to their native ability, the mental poise which disallows the indiscretions of mediocrity. Not content to pray to their own muse, they wantonly and with an often unintelligent iconoclasm destroy the temples of other muses. Such men, obviously, cannot stride the twin steeds of Pegasus and Propriety. Nor is this an ability remote from greatness. Bulls in so many china shons, they are often futile in conversation and vulgar...
...would work better together, that they would accomplish more, and, at least the President of Harvard University would agree that such an establishment was an approach to the perfect in university administration. Dr. Kirkpatrick can only hope for such cooperation. Could he promise that the faculty, now striding the twin steeds of scholarship and teaching with what grace is possible, would be even beter poised with the third steed of university administration added--then his faculty government might appear equally necessary. And last if he could only match that famous line concerning youth's lack of knowledge...
...Which one of the following is Norman Leslie Derham: a piccolo player, a horse thief, a Siamese twin, a barber, a golf champion, a Juke, a man-in-the-street, a Fiji emperor, or a Channel swimmer...
...President Coolidge called upon the Tariff Commission to prepare a report on the onion situation in Idaho. Alarmed by the presence of 1,800 carloads in Twin Falls County and 1,000 more in the Boise Valley waiting for a market, onion growers have clamored for a higher protective tariff...