Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London an august glass door was smudged by curious noses (belonging to pressmen who had been barred along with all other observers from the courtroom). Above each nose a pair of eyes peered intently at five learned judges, at a culprit quite as learned as they. Eyebrows were lifted all round because the five judges were defying tradition and sitting without wigs or gowns?an event said to be without English legal precedent during the last century...
...doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand. That hand must not tremble. It must pull the needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood...
...digesting breadstuffs. Weaning should be fixed partly by the child's age, partly by the appearance of the teeth. The first come during the sixth or seventh month. From then on the number of sucklings may be reduced?in a month to twice a day. When the second pair of teeth arrive, the mother can wean the child. When the third group (the later incisors and grinders) appeal-about the end of the first year, the baby can chew solid food...
...volume on natural history, George (Kodaks) Eastman of Rochester, N. Y., sailed last week from Manhattan for Mombasa and the African interior, accompanied by technicians of the Museum, armed with a battery of his cinema cameras in several sizes. He expected to be joined in France by that indefatigable pair of sportsman-explorers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ethan Akeley.* At quarrying with a camera, Mr. Eastman is no novice. For years his humane-hunting grounds have been the Far West and Canada. Other comrades on this trip: Audley D. Stewart, able Rochester medico, Daniel B. Pomeroy, genial New York banker...
...Prince. At Birmingham, most celebrated of British industrial centres, Edward of Wales visited the local Trade Fair and stepped upon a pair of scales to oblige their maker. The pointer spun, stopped at 137 pounds, to the satisfaction of the Prince who has tapered off his meat lately, lest he grow fat, and his drink, lest his tendency to nervousness increase. He is said to be "setting the fashion for modest four-course dinners...