Word: twos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four Princeton and four Pennsylvania trackmen found a way to make their competition more exciting-by running against each other successively by twos in a mile race instead of simultaneously at 440 yards. That was the origin of modern relay racing, since become the most popular form of intercollegiate track competition, and the beginning...
There must be many thirty-eights on that subway train flashing by. In ones and twos and threes. From Hartford, Conn., Philadelphia, Pa., and Okmulgee, Okla. And from Roxbury, East Boston and Revere. Come to leap into the meat-chopper. Come to wear their young lives away on Andromache and Karl Heinrich. Come to strut before Brattle brats and grovel before Deans. Come to sublimate their young instincts on Soldiers Field and the River Charles. Come to sublimate their young instincts on Soldiers Field and the River Charles. Come to write feeble pish for the Lampoon and pseudo-esoteric banalities...
...boldness to take arms and do battle in Vienna last winter against Austria's "Christian Fascist" Government (TIME, Feb. 26). Into Moscow rumbled a flower-decked train pack-jammed with Austrian moppets most of whose fathers had died fighting in the Schutzbund (Socialist storm troops). By twos and threes the children have escaped to Czechoslovakia where Soviet agents put them on the special train last week. As the train chuffed across Poland the refugees were compelled by Polish soldiers to furl their red flags, but once in Russia they wiggled them from every window. Said a Soviet spokesman, "These children...
Enthusiastic men roaming the earth by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds, probing for remains of vanished animals, men and civilizations. . . . Scholarly men poring over clues in the quiet of their libraries, piecing together forgotten pages of the world's history. . . . Hopeful men searching by air for signs of lost glories. . . . Diggers all, builders all of the never-finished bridge between past and present. Prime news of diggers since the first of the year...
...animals and things contrast with Mickey's seriousness, act with fantastic playfulness. A swarm of canary chicks will escape Mickey's cage, light in unison on a table. Suddenly they all go into a dance, do a double shuffle, a stationary skating motion and bump fundaments by twos. Audiences roar with astonishment. Mickey's cat and dog chase one another into a pair of drawers on a line. The drawers stand up and do a buck & wing. A bedspring rises on end. Mickey twangs the strings and it becomes a harp. Anything may take on life...