Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...wouldn't consider myself capable of handling my job as a security inspector if, because of my color, I had to be treated differently." Result: everyone else in town either went shaggy or drove 34 miles to Santa Fe and the nearest pair of clippers...
...third floor of Phillips Brooks House here is a tiny room littered with printed forms in triplicate. It is the home of Cambridge Local Board 17; last week Local Board 17 issued this writer a pair of MTA tickets and told him to report to the Boston Army Base for his pre-induction physical...
...doctors practicing in groups, and it also wanted more pay and more hospital privileges for general practitioners. It urged a nominal charge (as little as 70? a week) for board & lodging in hospitals, and a token fee of 28? towards the cost of each X-ray film and each pair of spectacles...
Eighteenth Century automatons were born of the realization that clockwork is a power source that can be used for more than just telling time. Such triumphs of ingenuity as Venice's famed Clock Tower, where the hours are struck by a pair of huge mechanical Moors, could be, and were, imitated in watches and snuff boxes made for the dandies of the day. Casanova thought himself half naked without several such showpieces about...
Teacher McGill persuaded four of his colleagues in the social sciences to join him in an experiment. He picked 185 pairs of students, each pair closely matched in ability. To one group the teachers gave the usual homework assignments, to the other, none at all. Last week in High Points, official magazine of New York City public high-school teachers, McGill made his report...