Word: paired
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed: "Columbia sitting aloft on a Barge of State, heralded by Fame at the prow, oared by the Arts and Industries, guided by Time at the helm, and drawn by seahorses of Commerce. . . . Horns of Plenty pour their abundance over the gunwales. . . . In the basin of the fountain four pair of seahorses, mounted by riders who represent Modern Intelligence, draw the barge, while babes and mermaids disport themselves in the surrounding spray...
...There was a sudden jerk as if he [Dr. Olivecrona] had seized the opening with a pair of forceps. It was followed by a straining sensation, a feeling of pressure, a cracking sound, and a terrific wrench. . . . Something broke with a dull noise. . . . Each cracking sound reminded me of taking the lid off a jamjar, while the process as a whole was like splitting open a wooden packing case, plank by plank...
Ventriculoscope. Buried in the middle of the brain are four ventricles or water reservoirs, the two largest shaped like a pair of ram's horns. Each ventricle is partly lined with feathery tissue called the choroid plexus. Function of the choroid plexus is to generate the fluid which bathes the outside of the brain and spinal cord. If the choroid plexus produces abnormal quantities of water, or if the brain fails to absorb the fluid which bathes it, hydrocephalus occurs...
...acre park built by WPA, west of Seattle's exclusive Broadmoor district. It was the scene last week of a really glittering occasion. After speeches, orchestra music, ceremonies broadcast by radio, plump, close-coupled Collector of Customs Saul Haas, Seattle's Democratic patronage dispenser, lifted a pair of scissors, slashed the gauze covering of an ordinary-looking box. Out twinkled 200 fireflies...
...phane and Onésime Sabatier, a pair of broad-boned, high-cheeked young Huguenots, wanted respectively to be prosperous merchant and artist. Both started well, as Onésime eloped with his rich cousin, Cécile Renouvier, and Stéphane got Cécile's paunchy, grandiose father to back a Marseille importing firm for him. The brothers' ambitions were reversed when his wife's money gradually converted Onésime into a comfortable bourgeois and Stéphane, after being ruined in business by bulbous-eyed Solomon Lévy-Ruhlmann, turned...