Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's most unusual brother combination received a new honor last week. Barney McKinney Giles, Chief of Air Staff, was boosted from major general to lieutenant general. The promotion put Barney two steps ahead of his twin brother, Brigadier General Benjamin Franklin Giles, in their private family competition, now about to enter its 25th year...
...plot: hefty Jon Hall is about to marry a lissome South Sea Islander (Maria Montez) when she is abducted by the Cobra People, a tribe of fanatic snake-worshippers, and taken to Cobra Island, whence few escape. Mr. Hall follows, learns that his fiancee's twin sister (Maria Montez) an evil High Priestess, has got the extras so hornswoggled by her snake dance that they march straight into the mouth of an active volcano. When Hall asks Maria's grandmother, the Island's powerless Queen, why her subjects act that way, he is told: "She appeals...
...Chicago's Golden Gloves. Like any smart ring operator, he sponsors preliminary bouts on Wednesdays to give new fighters experience. His stable of 150 fighters is headed by Marine Moe Weiss of The Bronx, middleweight winner of 50 out of 57 pro bouts before enlisting, and his twin brother Harvey...
Bounding back from the twin defeat suffered a week ago, the Crimson baseball teams registered a double win on Saturday. The Varsity topped Camp Thomas, 5-4, while the B team beat the Cambridge...
...Japanese, said he, had twin aims: political propaganda in India; the capture of favorable positions for attack on the Assam-Bengal railway - chief supply line for China as well as the India and Burma battlefronts. The Allied countermove is first to locate and pin down the Japs, prevent them from gaining full use of roads, squeeze their supplies. Secondly, the British would attack and destroy the enemy - an operation which would take several weeks...