Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Chicago, five years ago Herman Jackson took a wife. So did his twin brother Albert. A year ago Herman left his wife. So did Albert. Herman married again without divorce. So did Albert. Last week Herman was arrested for bigamy. So was Albert...
...only other time that a Crimson football team engaged in a doubleheader was in the fall of 1921 when both Middlebury and B. U. were defeated in an early season twin bill. The Crimson won the games by 16 to 0 and 10 to 0 scores, respectively...
...head-resistance reduced to absolute minimum, has been loosely used to describe all manner of low-wing monoplanes and effectively streamlined craft. Last week at Boiling Field (Washington, D. C.) was flown a ship nearly approaching the ideal, an Army experimental observation plane built by Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker. Twin Curtiss Conqueror engines, 600 h. p. with small chemical-cooled radiators, are mounted inside the single thick tapered wing on either side the fuselage. In flight the landing gear can be retracted into the belly of the fuselage, like a bird's legs...
...something that stumped him, and besides, keeping the great 100,000-page ledgers of his business took up too much of his time. So Paul Bunyan was a very happy man the day he found John Rogers Inkslinger sitting bemused on a cliff with one foot damming up the Twin Rivers, and added him to his camp crew as chief bookkeeper, surveyor, inventor, doctor, and general efficiency expert. And Johnny Inkslinger was very glad to meet Paul Bunyan, too, despite that hero's carelessness in mistaking the great scribe's supply of fresh-sharpened pencils for a pine...
...these "motor vehicles" more than one-third are motorcycles. Although Berlin is as populous as (and more extensive than) Chicago, in pleasure cars she ranks down the scale with Omaha, Neb., which has 44,525. Chicago has 405,000 pleasure cars, almost ten times as many as her German twin in population...