Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrive until after Hattie Pitts of the McKendree Methodist Church lifted her hands and her voice in prayer, shrieked: "O Lord, O Jesus, have mercy on these men." The roughnecks ceased their buffeting. This, the third fistibuster in Congress within a week, caused Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts to pass around among his friends a resolution providing that all future bouts be conducted in Statuary Hall "under the paternal eyes of the Fathers of the Republic," with Dry Representative Upshaw, who has failed of re-election to the next Congress, as referee. "I think these bouts are due to Prohibition," said...
...laid out vast stretches of the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern roads. Near Havre, Mont., there is a statue to jog the memory. It stands on a bleak ridge where, after visits to the camps of treacherous Blackfeet Indians, Mr. Stevens learned that below the ridge was a secret pass which the Indians said was haunted. Mr. Stevens found the pass alone, but lost his homeward way when night fell. Munching a frozen biscuit, gnawing a strip of raw pork, Mr. Stevens paced all night, dreaming "exactly how the trains of the Great Northern would go sweeping through those mountain...
...Sejm assembles. Only Minister of Interior Slawoi Skladkowski sits, alone and forlorn, upon the Government bench. Opposition deputies stroke their beards in satisfaction, twirl confident mustaches, whisper that the Budget Bill will never pass. Once again they tear it to tatters in a furious debate. At last the President of the Sejm calls for the final vote...
...plays. During the last 5 minutes of the action, it was anybody's game with Harvard leading, but never by more than one or two points. The dramatic moment came when Bailey replaced Dorn at right forward and made two goals from the field, the last one after a pass the whole length of the court, which Bailey netted with a pass over his back in the shadow of the basket. Green at centre and Malick at right guard also starred for the Crimson. The Harvard defense was much stronger than it has been for several games...
Perhaps one of the greatest evils in the mass production which is the modern factory system is the use of man power as machinery, a sort of machinery with eyes and fingers to give so and so many turns to such and such bolts as they pass by in an endless, changeless stream from morning till night; a sort of machinery that gets in the habit of doing its particular bit of work like the dog on the turnspit and requires about as much intellegence. It is this habit in factory work of which Mr. E. D. Smith will speak...