Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Annual sophomore-freshman tussle supposed to replace inter-class fights. Divided into lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight classes, three bouts are held. Object: to wrest a heavy stick, grasped at each end, from one's opponent. This year sophomores won two of the three matches...
...Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building of 200 miles of railroad tracks in Oregon and California. Location and not length makes the proposed line important. It would connect two powerful allies, the Great Northern and the Western Pacific. Vigorously fighting these two roads on the question of the new line is the Southern Pacific, backed by its ally, the Union Pacific...
From the Ritz jumped two men hand-in-hand. They had held a joint account...
...important single factor in their trade, might become an even greater, more potent unit. From New Orleans, chief banana port, came rumors that U. F. C. had bought the Cuyamel Fruit Co., second in the field, operating eleven ships, large landowners in Honduras and Nicaragua. Combined assets of the two companies would exceed $250,000,000. Independent still would be the Standard Fruit and Steamship Corp., founded and largely owned by the Brothers Vaccaro of New Orleans...
...Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted such a ship at a dinner of New Haven's august Union League Club. Westcott & Mapes are now estimating their bids on the structural work of not one, but two such planes. The builders expect that the first will be wrecked by the ineptitude of navigators with such a mighty machine. The lessons they learn in wrecking the first plane they can apply to flying the second. Each will have at least a dozen 1,000-h. p. motors, will...