Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make-up examination, which he passes?be-cause the professor shows college spirit. One minute to play?the stage darkens and Tom Marlowe is seen tearing off 40 yards against Colton and a treadmill. He fumbles, but by trick playwrighting the fumble is converted into a lateral pass to the leading comedian (Gus Shy, who really is funny). Thus, the game is won; future generations of Tait undergraduates will be able to hold up their heads before the world, and everybody marries in Junior year. George Olsen's band makes the music?in the pit and on the stage. Zelma...
...Grants Pass...
Other Europeans had time to sit up in bed and rub their eyes before reading confirmation of an event which many of them had doubted could actually come to pass...
Landing lights at airports have been made remarkably efficient, but what about the flyer who, straying at night from his course, passes near a field at which he is not expected, of which he is unaware? That contingency, too, is now taken care of by a device invented by Research Engineer T. Spooner of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. and demonstrated last week at Bettis Field,*McKeesport, Pa. This device, essentially, is a mechanical ear which may be set to listen, while airport attendants sleep, for any ships that pass in the night. It is a microphone, with a large...
...Invidious passages: GENESIS XXXIX, 12: And she [Potiphar's wife] caught him [Joseph] by his garment saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. 13: And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, 14: That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice...