Word: twos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four o'clock of a dull afternoon last month, a Lincoln motor ear waited outside the office door of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Some nondescript fellows who were arriving in twos and threes at the same door glanced at their watches and then, nervously, at the big car where it crouched beside the curb, glittering in the grey air as if its glass and brass and nickel work were lit with a secret sunlight. For whom was it waiting...
...still uncertain what the requirements for this form of exercise will be it is most likely, however, that likely will go out in twos and threes rather than in a large crowd, as the department has no wish to start a Boys' Hiking Club...
...recently complied list of American colleges, Harvard has been classed as coeducational. Doubtless the gatherer of statistics had visited Cambridge and seen the nonchalant demoiselles walking in twos and threes through the Yard with books under their arms. Perhaps he had wandered into Widener to look at the Sargent murals and had seen and heard groups of giggling girls passing to and from the delivery room. He may even have carried his researches as far as the lecture halls and noticed the rare but real feminine presence in this or that course. Such may be the explanation of Harvard...
...much for the students as we should." And at is here that the Willener authorities have made their choice between popular books, and volumes which are more important to graduate students in research work. The more common text-books are present only "by ones and twos...
While on the march to the field yesterday the band practiced the new "H" formation which will be featured at Princeton Saturday. This will be formed by spreading out and forming two columns of twos with a double rank as a cross-bar, of which the front rank will be made up of trombones...