Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greyhound's Highway Traveler (6-ft., nonglare picture win dows, a compressed-air suspension system for easy riding), adds some brand-new ones of its own. The 40-ft. long, split-level bus carries 43 passengers, has a washroom, a new air-conditioning and heating system and twin diesel engines...
...This is a mistake. The truth is there is a very desirable meeting ground between business and Government. It is a plateau that rises above the twin dangers of costly 'do-goodism' in the swamp to the left and shortsighted selfishness in the mountains to the right...
When he was questioned by the Investigating Committee about the Lubell dispute last year in which Sears demanded that Dean Griswold fire twin Law students David and Jonathan Lubell for invoking the Fifth Amendment, the Boston lawyer said...
...spend half their salaried time as administrators, and the other half in academic work. Although their administrative experience is valuable, in the long run they will be judged for future permanent appointments largely on their academic accomplishments. Supporters of the Burr plan point out that departments will consider these twin duties when deciding permanent appointments. Although this may be true, academic competition extends, beyond the University. From a failure to understand the full meaning the Burr Tutorship, other institutions would be more likely to pass over these men in favor of others with academic records superficially more attractive...
Marlowe's latest case drops into his arms when he props up a drunk outside an expensive Los Angeles nightspot. The drunk is a weak-willed chap named Terry Lennox who has trouble accepting the twin facts that his beautiful wife is a nymphomaniac and a millionairess. When she has her skull bashed and "gets dead" a few weeks later, Terry seems the logical suspect, except to Marlowe. After two more violent deaths and some incidental lady-killings by Marlowe, the whole case is tied up very suitably...