Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sudents who expect to graduate this year with distinction in the Departments of History. Government or Economics will be required to pass special examinations in the work of those departments. The dates for these examinations have been fixed for April 23 and 26 at places to be announced later...
Whether or not we like prohibition, it is now very rapidly coming into its own. The passing of the National Amendment through the Massachusetts legislature has shown conclusively that there is little hope for the "wets." Massachusetts is the eleventh state to ratify and more significant, the fifth wet state. New York alone, of all the states that have been so far called upon to face this problem, has refused to pass the amendment: It has been successful even in such strongholds of the liquor interests as Kentucky and Maryland...
...found wanting. We neglect a hundred opportunities for service. The Red Cross, institutions of all kinds engaged in social betterment, Liberty Loan campaigns, all point to a vast need of men. Not one half of us know what war is. It does not permit us to pass our days in usual routine. It calls for radical readjustments, real sacrifices, and a tireless activity...
...good as some of the others. You do things you never could imagine and go tumbling about without knowing much of the time where the earth is at all. Two fellows who are pretty good will usually get started by approaching each other in opposite directions and as they pass try to get on each other's tail. They may go round and round for ten turns like a cat chasing its tail till the one who can make the sharpest turn succeeds in getting behind the other. Then the first...
...parties to work together. The task was too difficult for him and the captivating platform put forth by the internationalists, some of the planks of which are undeniably good, aided by German intrigue, steadily won the Russian workmen and soldiers. Soon they will learn their mistake. Trotsky will pass from the stage and his book will likewise pass, for it has neither literary, historical or inspirational value. Only for one reason is it worth reading, to find out what international socialists are thinking about the war. This, however, is no unimportant matter, because the contest of the proletariat against capitalism...