Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first doubles match, with Whitbeck and Hill representing Boston by virtue of their victory in the Massachusetts state doubles championships, spectacular play resulted before Williams and Sullivan broke down the resistance of the Harvard pair in three gruelling sets...
...value of gold is $20.6718 per troy ounce, and there are 14.583 troy ounces in an avoirdupois pound, so the pound is worth $301.45 and Mr. R's 135 pounds would be worth $40,696.56 "on a pair of accurate scales...
These words were addressed by Dr. John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton University, in a loud voice, to a pair of oak doors. He knocked loudly on the doors three times and a squeaky little voice was heard coming from the inside. Soon the doors opened and a face, under a little red cap, thrust itself between them. This was the face of famed Architect Ralph Adams Cram. The doors were those of the new, huge, Gothic Chapel designed by Architect Cram and built at a cost of $2,000,000, for Princeton students to worship in. The chapel, larger...
...stood a little racing car with two unusual accessories. In its rear it had something that looked like an exaggerated exhaust pipe. This, explained Herr von Opel, was a chamber for the explosion of rockets, the car's only means of locomotion. The other feature was a pair of little wings like an airplane's, except that their pitch was inverted. These, said Herr von Opel, were not to make the car fly, but to prevent it from flying. The car would go so fast he said that it needed air pressure to clamp it to earth...
Howard Whitmore '29 and MaAfee hurled nine innings of tight ball, and until the disastrous denouement in the ninth, the Harvard pitcher battled evenly with the Michigan ace, holding the champions of the Western Conference to four scattered hits. Altogether, the pair kept the total of hits for the game down to nine...