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Word: pairings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton faces Johns-Hopkins with a pair of dependable wings and three of its 1922 backfield. But although the Orange and Black shine most brilliantly at the ends and in the ball carrying department, it appears very weak on its line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE AND PRINCETON ARE STRONG FAVORITES TODAY | 10/6/1923 | See Source »

...Squier had nothing but praise for the bravery of the Chinese. Through some blunder, all operating instruments had been left off the relief ship. One Chinaman sat without uttering a word or groan while a doctor cut off three of his toes with a pair of scissors, and after the operation, he thanked the surgeon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. B. SQUIER '24 TELLS OF JAPANESE HOLOCAUST | 10/2/1923 | See Source »

...That was the wedding ritual. No minister tied the knot, no justice of the peace earned a fee, no sermon was preached over the free-loving pair, and no license was obtained, except an authorization from the Mexican Federation of Labor to wed by the Bolshevik formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Free Love | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...arrangement of the crews will be within a week, Coach Stevens decided late last night. At that time he also determined to retain three men, B. R. Wiesman '25, W. A. Coolidge '24, and J. R. Hoover '24, on the University squad. Wiesman and Coolidge will row in a pair oared shell today and Hoover will be placed on one of the four crews as soon as he has recovered from a slight illness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEVENS GROUPS HIS MEN FOR FALL WORK | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

Twenty-one and two-tent's horse power in a test of 25 feet on a cinder-surfaced road were developed by Cap and King, a pair of 10-year-old Percheron geldings, in unique pulling tests at the Iowa State Fair, Des Moines. By means of a hydraulic wagon, or dynamometer, recently invented, the "tractive pull" of horse teams was determined with scientific accuracy for the first time. This is the kind of energy required to pull a varying weight out of a hole in the ground. The winning pair exerted a maximum tractive pull of 2,300 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Horse's Power | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

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