Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Which legs does a fly use to clean its middle pair?" "How many ounces of grass does a grasshopper eat in a day?" Miss Claribel R. Barnett, librarian of the Department of Agriculture, answers these questions and many like them, put by perplexed letter writers...
...Monday and fielding and batting work-outs have grown steadily more intensive. It now seems possible that the threatened weakness in the pitching staff will be overcome since K. N. Hill '24 and J. E. Toulmin '25 have both improved rapidly and now give promise of becoming a strong pair upon whom the University can rely. L. C. Larrabee '24 seems sure to fill the first catcher's position...
...villain fills us with the same sort of creepy horror that the tomb-like doctor does in the last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac in "It is the Law". Mr. Hohi fills the part well; it is he who makes the play...
...baby, born apparently dead, was successfully revived by unusual means, an injection of adrenalin. The child, a boy, was one of a pair of boy and girl twins born in a Brooklyn maternity hospital. The two children together weighed only five and a half pounds at birth. The girl, except for her size, was normal. The boy was without heart action or respiration...
...Wagnerian Opera Festival should teach a lesson to producers of opera: You can't go out and pick up an orchestra as you would a pair of shoes. The singers are in most respects excellent artists. One could easily call them outright a great troupe if it were not for the matter of acoustics. The Germans are playing at the Manhattan Opera House. Vocalists may have beautiful, ringing tone in that auditorium, which in another theatre they lack. But the singers of the Wagnerian Festival seem excellent, notably the baritone Schorr. By comparison they have made the orchestra...