Word: dual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manila, Filipino "Siamese" twins (joined at the base of their spines); to two sisters, Natividad and Victorino Malos. Marriage licenses were issued to them by the Philippine Department of Justice, which overruled a license bureau clerk who felt that the twins, whom he regarded as one individual with a dual personality, would commit bigamy by marrying two women...
Since their last split, after their 1926 football game, Harvard and Princeton have not participated in dual contests in any sport. Last week, however, sportsmen thought they saw first signs of a rapprochement in these two occurrences: Princeton Athletic Director Charles W. Kennedy was invited to officiate at the Harvard-Yale v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He accepted. Harvard Athletic Director William J. Bingham was invited to officiate at the Princeton-Cornell v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He too accepted...
...cross-country team, led by its sensational captain J. L. Reid '29 enjoyed its usual successful season. Only one dual meet was dropped by Coach Mikkoloa's men, and they finished up the regular season with a 26 to 29 triumph over the Elis. The seconds were given a trial in a meet with Springfield. Connecticut Aggies and New Hampshire, and though outclassed they acquitted themselves creditably...
...Theological Seminary, greatest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. Over the protests of Fundamentalists, who feared the move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout its entire history...
...advice to young men of Technology that they train themselves to be snobs. He would have them become snobs divested of all snobbery. They are to cultivate self-respect, but equally are they to show respect for the rights and the human feelings of others. This is a dual feat which no snob of past history has ever accomplished, or tried to accomplish. But Professor Roger's snob of the future should be able to compass it, because he is to be a snob in an altogether new sense of the word. He is bound to remember the superior advantages...