Word: paired
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district court in Somerville, Mass, one morning last week, beaming Clerk Louis Connolly presented him with an empty docket. There had not been a single arrest in Somerville for 34 hours. Beaming even more brightly, Clerk Connolly then handed up a package from a 5-&-10? store. Contents: a pair of white gloves. Significance: When judges made a circuit of ancient English towns to hold assizes, any town which had no criminals to be tried celebrated such a "maiden assize" by presenting the judges with white gloves-because judges as a mark of submission to the Crown wore none while...
...Shiites but even the literate Government clique-including youthful King Ghazi, who belongs to the opposed Sunnite sect-sympathize with the Arabs of Palestine. Anti-Jewish propaganda is, in the circumstances, anti-British propaganda. Last spring both Sunnites and Shiites relished a poster depicting John Bull holding a pair of scales in which an Arab, an Indian and a Negro in one tray were outweighed by a fat, long-nosed...
Thinking my eyes were deceiving me, I measured the design with a pair of calipers and find there is 3mm. difference between the horizontal and vertical meridians...
Among the latter group, Germans are outstanding. In the past decade they have succeeded in scaling seemingly impregnable peaks all over the world. That the Alpine Eigerwand (wall of the ogre) resisted their perennial attacks piqued German mountaineers. One morning last fortnight a pair of Austrians named Harrer & Kastarek, equipped with provisions for five days, left the base of Mt. Eiger, began to assail the ogre that had swallowed nine daredevils since the summer of 1935. Next morning two Bavarians, Voerg & Heckmaier, followed the first pair...
...night the pump master bought two cases of beer, four cases of soda water and gave a dance in his front yard. The musicians got lost in the jungle but Garcia played the fiddle. It was a dark night. Manuel had brought Carlos a pair of tight, shiny shoes as a present from Texas. Carlos, used to running barefoot, slipped on a narrow bridge and fell into the river. When the boy was missed, the women wailed, the men put a consecrated candle on a piece of wood, let it float to midstream. Where it stopped, Perez dived and brought...