Word: pairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thieves before. First he sold me a pair of socks, then said...
...Wapato, Wash., who said he had captured it in his chicken-yard. It was a cat, thrice the size of a house cat, with a tail heavy and furry, like a coyote's. On each side of its spine, beginning just back of the shoulders, grew a pair of muscular ridges, for all the world like two pairs of rudimentary wings, furred heavily. The feline's hind feet measured five inches, spreading out like the feet of a snow-shoe rabbit...
...patent that no Catholic ever thought of giving it. "Why does the Roman Catholic Church he asks refuse to grant a divorce to a man and woman who have lived in civil wedlock; but instead (italics mine) grants an annulment, of which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state?" The Catholic Church grants no divorce, that is well-known. Neither does it grant an annulment. It announces that a marriage is null, when it is null, an entirely different thing.... The Rota gives an average of eleven declarations...
Notable Exceptions. Outside these "big business" combines whose sole preoccupations are profit and power there exists a mere pair of newspapers whose editors can call their souls their own. The onetime (1921-26) Viceroy of India, the Marquis of Reading, has recently sought to enlarge this number by his purchase of the Daily Chronicle (Liberal) from Lloyd George control; but the "old guard" actually consists of only the Manchester Guardian (Liberal) and the London Times (Independent). For 50 years Mr. Charles P. Scott, owner and editor of the Manchester Guardian, has upheld the highest and most disinterested ideals of journalism...
...pair of earrings, two perfectly matched pearls with square cut diamonds. Price thirty-five thousand dollars, less thirty-three and one-third per cent...