Word: twos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cows, grain and other food with them into the hills where the Japanese could not follow. All through the valley, tiny Japanese garrisons were mired in mud, unable to communicate with one another, and slowly starving. When off duty, simple soldiers would sneak out of their garrison posts in twos and threes and rove the countryside looking for abandoned chickens and eggs-many were caught and killed by the Chinese...
...contributing to the service of the army. . . . In the use of the military bicycle as practised in England, [suppose that] a small body of cyclists, ten in number (two sections and a half-section), with officers and bugler, marching in usual order of half-sections-that is, by 'twos'-are attacked by cavalry. At the word of command, 'Halt! Prepare for cavalry! Form square!' each man dismounts. . . . The rifles are lifted out of their clips. . . . The machines are placed upside down. . . . Lastly, each man, as he lies or kneels down behind his machine, sets his wheels...
...weather man confidently predicted fair and cold, the reverse of usual Dartmouth weather for the clash. Meanwhile the mackinawed men from the hills of Hanover kept pouring into Harvard by the twos, threes, fours, and squads. The curtain rises
...actors." To hefty, thrifty Movie Producer Jed Buell this crack of a subordinate was intended as a reproof. Instead it gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from 19 to 65. Meanwhile, his writers turned out a script for a "rollickin', rootin', tootin', shootin' drama...
...Yorkship School's 250 pupils he announced that each youngster who received an A in deportment on his monthly report card would get one 15-cent ice cream soda on the house. Last week Yorkship's teachers passed out the fateful report cards. Presently, in breathless twos and threes, the first arrivals raced up to Charles Balaban's soda fountain, exhibited their A's. Mr. Balaban amiably began to set them up. Soon they came by tens, then twenties. Mr. Balaban ran out of straws, glasses, soda, ice cream. By nightfall no good little boys...