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Word: twins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twin 18 year-old sisters, students at the School of Boston Museum of Fine Arts, were booked yesterday on charges of assault and battery after a mid-day fight with policemen in the Leverett House Junior Common Room...

Author: By Howard L. White and Walter E. Wilson, S | Title: Twin Sisters Arrested After Fight at Leverett | 4/30/1957 | See Source »

...separate meeting. Aramburu made it plain to the brass that once the constitution is revised, he will stick to his plan to hold general elections next February and turn over power to whatever government is chosen. The twin elections that Aramburu plans will be the country's first free and fair votes in eleven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Death for Tyrants | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

They adored each other, aped each other ("twin costumes of silk and velvet . . . identical flowing black ties"). Their quarrels were fiendish. Their cook, looking out of the window at 2 a.m., might descry Mummy, "her pink nightgown streaming behind her, rushing headlong down 97th Street toward Madison, screaming: 'I'll throw myself under the first streetcar!' " One morning, when she appeared with arm in sling, her right eye bruised she explained grandly: "I stumbled over a champagne case in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ei-lu-lu .. . Baby | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...Twin's Keeper. In Columbus, Ind., when Twins Avery and Joe Fred Miller were fined $25 each for drunk driving in separate cars, Joe Fred protested to the judge that he was only trying to pass Avery and slow him down "so he wouldn't get into trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...Japan's $99.50 Minolta Autocord, introduced last year as the cheapest, quality twin-lens reflex camera anyone could expect, is being superseded by an even less expensive model: a new automatic Yashica-Mat at only $75.50, which will give budget-conscious amateurs near-professional tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Picture of Progress | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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