Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With a pair of veteran guards back again for a nucleus and a group of promising youngsters rapidly rising to positions of reliability, this department of Harvard's gridiron machine is probably better fixed for the impending campaign against the country's best than any of its near relatives...
...attack for those vital two and three-yard gains the success of which often spells victory or defeat. Harvard's opponents are mostly of the big-college-powerfully-built type who plan to have their open attacks carefully checked by driving line offensives in critical moments. To have a pair of weak guards who will wilt under heavy battering is to be under a handicap so grievous that it may be termed almost fatal...
...pigeon and release it. Otherwise he would be killed. Shrewd Herr Pattberg hired a plane and pilot which followed the pigeon and photographed the house on which it alighted. Duisburg police soon arrested the blackmailer. Less smart were Manhattan police last April when a Dr. Louis Alofsin received a pair of pigeons and a demand for $10,000. Police, futile with field glasses on housetops, watched the birds fly across the Hudson to New Jersey...
...beginning at the dedication of Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Bandmaster Sousa, 74, has swung his baton a half-century. Today he is keen-eyed, grey-haired, martial. Gone is the pointed black beard which used to punctuate his face on billboards. Before a concert he pulls on a new pair of white kid gloves, afterwards peels them off, autographs them for lady admirers. To aspiring young bandmasters he says: "Do not be obscure. ... It will ruin your work." To embryo musicians he says: "Mastery of the harmonica lays the foundation for a musical career...
...South Bend, Ind., hearing that the city zoo wanted a pair of bald eagles, two South Benders went afield and obtained two large, bald birds from a farmer named MacMillan. A patriotic judge fined Farmer MacMillan $13 for violating the Federal law against taking captive the National Bird. A zoologist helped Farmer MacMillan recover his $13 by identifying the National Birds as buzzards...