Word: pairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke's private motor car, bearing his emblem and crest, was seized and driven through the streets, while the unsuspecting populace cheered two students dressed as the Duke and Duchess of York, then froze with horror as the "Royal Pair" thumbed their noses...
...Pantheon de la Guerre in Paris there was an operation a month ago. A pair of silver shears, now glorified as relics, cut down the world's largest painting on canvas-a cyclorama, 400 feet long, at which tourists have stared for eight years. On it is a pictorial history of the World War- cannon and weeping mothers in black, plunging airplanes and statesmen-a gigantic optical illusion as seen from the centre of the circular temple. Parts of it are painfully real. There are 6,000 figures, the creations of 22 artists, whose skill is photographic rather than...
Along dirt roads from Kansas City to Lawrence, Kan., a pair of sandals went clump-hua-clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . In the sandals were the red feet of Jose Torres of the Tarahumara tribe of Chihuahua, Mexico, who last week ran this 51 miles in 6 hr. 46 min. 41 sec. (a speed of about 8 m. p. h). In regulation track shoes, Purcell Kane, an Apache of Haskell Institute, finished second. Three other Indians also ran. Jose Torres, as everyone knows, recently covered 89.4 miles of concrete road in 14 hr. 53 min. (TIME, April...
...eighth brought the last pair of Harvard runs. Ullman was given a life when Armstrong's throw pulled Cole off the bag, and Donaghy straightened out one of Sanford's shoots for a triple to right. Ketchum and Burns fanned, but Jones weighed in with a single and Donaghy sprinted home...
...most pleasant motion picture has been in town lately. At present it may not be showing, but it will certainly reappear next week. It is "The Show", featuring John Gilbert and Renee Adoree, the inimitable pair of "The Big Parade...