Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once the bow was up the effort had to be made, despite the adverse wind and sea conditions (which were getting worse) to get the stern up. This effort did not succeed, owing to the parting of the chains of the stern pair of pontoons...
...time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those teaching both Whites and Negroes were felons. An escaping slave prior to 1865 wore "a black cloth coat, a high hat, white flannel waistcoat, a checked shirt, a pair of everlasting breeches, a pair of yarn stockings, a pair of old pumps . . . and sundry other clothes...
...London. The latter's researches have convinced him that offspring capable of reproducing themselves can be obtained by crossing orangoutangs with the yellow race, gorillas with the black race and chimpanzees with the white race, the theory being that the divisions of the anthropoid and human races pair off thus most closely as kindred types...
Temptation. Silk stockings at $10 a pair, lingerie at $25 to $75 a suit-Roumania's prohibitive tariff on de luxe articles forces these prices-tempt smugglers to squirm under boundary fences, elude border guards. In Bucharest complaints were loud last week...
...first years after the war, at Covent Garden, London, a pair of "plus-fours" was seen. Following this outrage the tuxedo, dinner garment of touts dining in company and gentlemen dining alone, appeared frequently in the boxes, where none without full evening dress dared enter in the days when good King Edward reigned. Last week the management of Covent Garden made evening dress once more obligatory...