Word: twins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today's racers are 30-odd feet long, with sharp prows and raking twin masts that are taller than their length. Their beam is no broader than a man is tall. They are especially sporty and picturesque because they must be balanced by man power. Each canoe carries "springboards," on which most of the crew scramble to windward when the boat heels. Despite well-trained crews, canoes frequently capsize under their towering clouds of sail...
...Army Air Forces) in 1939 turned to liquid-cooled, subsequently laid down $190,000,000 in contracts for the 1,090 h.p. 12-cylinder Allison, manufactured by General Motors. Among the planes it got for its Allison money were a couple of notable dandies: the Bell Airacobra and the twin-engined Lockheed. Airacobra, with 1,090 h.p., ticked off close to 400 miles an hour, is a pilot's airplane to boot -handy and maneuverable. The Lockheed, driven by two Allisons, topped 400. Allison has since twice stepped up the horsepower of its 12-cylinder engine, once...
...opposition to the administration was formidable both in numbers and in strategy, besides containing a good share of first-rate newspapermen: Detroit's 36-year-old Milton Murray (Detroit Times assistant city editor) ; San Francisco's Sam Eubanks; Washington's Bill Rodgers; Twin Cities' Kenneth Grouse (Pioneer Press telegraph editor) ; Memphis' Harry Martin (Commercial Appeal columnist...
Solid anti-administration blocs came from Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Twin Cities, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle...
...string bags" nicked the French battleship Strasbourg as she fled from the Battle of Oran, had crippled three heavy units of the Italian Fleet at Taranto, slowed the Vittorio Veneto in the Battle of Matapan, had crippled the Bismarck.) But this operation was being carried out by brand-new, twin-engined monoplane Bristol Beauforts, clean as whistles...