Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corporal Puddifoot of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade displayed a gleaming pair of gold cuff links last week, a present from Queen Mary. For Corporal Puddifoot was one of the four stretcher-bearers who bore the King-Emperor from Buckingham Palace to the motor ambulance which carried him to Bognor. Last week the King's Equerry, Col. Arthur Erskine, in behalf of the Queen, handed each of the four a pair of massive gold links, each large enough to bear the inscription: "A Memento of Her Majesty's Appreciation of Your Services...
Today was to be The Chief's big day. As Boris helped The Chief into a pair of grey pin-striped trousers and a formal morning coat, he felt like giving little adjusting pats on the broad shoulders...
...eight consecutive victories the Harvard team has caged 35 goals. W. B. Wood '32 and F. R. Stubbs Jr. '32 form a brilliant passing pair, with Stubbs scoring consistently on fast, rising shots Potter Palmer '32, the speediest member of the sextet, and Captain C. C. Cunningham '32 are both expert body-checkers who have broken up many determined assaults on their territory. C. D. Draper '32 has allowed only three shots to get past him into the Harvard goal
...years it has been nearly impossible to secure important Japanese paintings because they are prized by native collectors and not allowed to come to the West. The pair of fourteenth-century shrine doors painted with two Buddhist figures in two colors has therefore peculiar interest to the Museum. The collection of early Chinese Buddhist drawings has also been increased to a full dozen through the gift of Sir Percival David of London, who has recently added three more. Sir Percival has also presented the Museum with a pottery bowl, one of a unique pair, the other of which remains...
...After John Harvard has had 293 years of varying success, six weeks of apple sauce bid fair to leave him with nothing but a pair of pants and a coat of copper nitrate. And now that tradition has been blackjacked and thrown into a corner, these innovators are licensed to peddle their synthetic culture to the universities, colleges and preparatory schools...