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Word: twins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanksgiving. The first light broke into the dirty black sky hours later. Mays thought he saw a sea gull. He looked again, saw the flashing lights of a Coast Guard twin-engined amphibian Albatross. The men tried to get up, to signal the plane, but in a moment it was gone. The raft drifted on. As the clouds broke before the sun. Fleming and Mays looked at their watches: 8:40. Then they looked at each other: their eyes were puffed, their faces red, their lips swollen, their hands cut and bruised. Yet, somehow, now that daylight had come, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Death of the Bradley | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Damascus this week, at the Cathedral of Mariameyeh (the Virgin Mary), a short, portly man with rosy cheeks and a long white beard, in vestments of gold and silver brocade, received a golden staff topped with twin serpents-and thus became the 173rd Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, the post revered by Eastern Orthodoxy as the oldest seat in Christendom.-Behind his election loomed a battle between Communism and the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Patriarch | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...planes would be serviced, none overhauled. The nation's fourth biggest line had no choice but to shut down. T.W.A.'s 196 daily flights, carrying 12,000 passengers across the U.S. and to 23 foreign cities, flew on to their destinations. Then the big Super Connies and twin-engined Martins were grounded, and the line locked up shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Strike at T.W.A. | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...student who moves into Quincy House next Fall will be forced to live in Mather Hall the following year, John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House, said yesterday. Mather, now a part of Leverett House, will be annexed to Quincy in 1960, when the Leverett "twin towers" open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy Members May Keep Original Rooms | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

...University, by referring to the Leverett addition as "twin towers," has emphasized that Harvard is being forced to "build high" for the first time. Commenting on the plans, President Pusey stated that "because of the scarcity of land in Cambridge, Harvard will have to begin to build higher structures" and that he was "delighted with the solution of a difficult architectural problem...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Leverett's 'Twin Towers' Will Open in Fall of 1960 | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

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