Word: dual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California's Les Steers, University of Oregon track man: the high jump in a dual meet with the University of Washington; clearing the bar at 6 ft., 10 25/32 in.; a new world's record; at Seattle. Fortnight before, California's Cornelius War-merdam set a new world's record for the pole vault...
...fearing that a realization of the magnitude of their crimes might drive them to desperation, the careful warders removed ties, belts, and suspenders from their charges. This morning all forty offenders will face the majesty of the law in the Northampton police court. The minimum penalty for their dual offense of exceeding the legal speed limit and "obstructing operations" by riding four in the front seat will be a stiff $25 fine...
...musician, Mr. Bennett has a dual personality. As Russell Bennett, he is a Tin Pan Alleyman who smartly arranges Broadway and Hollywood musicomedy scores, turning out 80 pages of orchestration in a day. In Broadway's louder and sweeter days, there were as many as 22 Bennett shows playing in one season.While keeping the tin pan boiling, Bennett has written-under the name of Robert Russell Bennett-an Abraham Lincoln Symphony, an opera, Maria Malibran, the fountain-&-fireworks music of the late New York World's Fair, many another serious piece. Now he can play the like...
This year's N.C.A.A. meet but for Bill Prew, Guy Lumsden and Andy Clark of Wayne University would take on the appearance of the long-awaited dual meet between Michigan and Yale. Both squads are bathing cap and shoulders above the rest that the country has to offer in the way of swimming teams...
...federation, not a confederation, and the principle of national sovereignty would be abolished. In practically every respect, the relations between the Union and the member democracies would be like those between the American government and the separate states. Fancying the Roman consular system, Streit suggests Churchill and Roosevelt as dual executives. Each member democracy would have one representative in the unicameral Congress, with an additional one for every 5,000,000 people. Thus there would be 49 members of Congress, of whom 27 would be American. After suggesting Wendell Willkie, Alf Landon, Al Smith, and others as our representatives, Streit...