Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan the club owners of the American and National Leagues held their annual meeting with Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in the chair. In many hours of the sort of conferential argument known as bag-punching they discussed a point or two...
...two periods, eleven Carnegie Technicians played as though every one of them rated the All American. They scored 13 first downs and 13 points. The Trojans, fidgeting in the line and scrambling over each other after the ball was snapped, were lucky to get two passes over to tie the score at the end of the half. In the third quarter Carnegie Tech started again but Eyth fumbled and Trojan Tappaan recovered...
...plays later Southern California had a touchdown. "Racehorse Russell" Saunders, quarterback, had made it. On bucks, on spinning end runs, he made 60 of the 65 yards of that march. A few minutes later he scored again. This time it took seven plays and he alone made all but two of the 45 yards required. Carnegie Tech was fidgeting now, stretching for Trojan passes that went where they were aimed. When "Racehorse Russell" rested, Duffield carried on. Southern California 45, Carnegie Tech...
...skeptical," said he. "There are some people so ignorant they still believe that Noah crowded two of each species of animals into the Ark. . . . here are others who think that Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale. ... I have studied two kinds of whales, and found that it is impossible for either of them to swallow a man whole, and anyway, no man could live inside a whale...
...this reason astronomers (who begin their astronomical day at noon, do not divide it into two 12-hour periods) advocate a calendar change...