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Word: pass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detour, construction ahead! or--pass at your own risk, soft shoulders; it rests with the Gods just when the tortuous stream of steaming tar that winds its devious way about the yard may come of age and sink back into that desirable state of intractable resistance. The new "Route 208" or the recommended Socony medium of travel between Widener and wherever you intend to go, represents a new era in the development of the historic old yard; a graceful bow to the commercialism of the present day in the form of laundry, pressing and cleaning, delivery wagons of all sizes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DETOUR" | 9/21/1929 | See Source »

...different part of this page will be found a schedule of the language examinations which will take up most of the afternoon. All members of the class are strongly urged to take advantage of this opportunity to pass off the language requirements. No application is necessary and no charge will be made for taking these examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN CLASS TO HAVE BUSY DAY OF MANY MEETINGS | 9/21/1929 | See Source »

...train business executives and be satisfied with nothing less. Otherwise it forfeits its right to stand on the same level with the older professional schools. Its graduates must of course, start in the lower ranks and many may never reach the highest commands. Over their heads will often pass, though perhaps less frequently in the future, gritty, gifted men from the lowest ranks. A progressive society must follow Napoleon's maxim of "careers open to talent." But accumulating experience confirms the policy of the school. There flows thence a stream of young men who carry from the school into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAY TRACES RAPID RISE OF SCHOOL TO PRESENT POSITION | 9/19/1929 | See Source »

William Wrigley Jr. of Catalina Island, baseball (Chicago ''Cubs''), gum and the Wrigley Building, is stout, bluff, good-natured, always ready to clasp the hand, to pass the Spearmint. He is fond of telling how, many years ago, he paused before a South Clark street restaurant, with holes in his shoes and snow on the ground, and spent his last dime for the "Biggest Bowl of Bean Soup in Chicago." Mr. Wrigley will be 68 on the last day of the present month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chicago Buyers | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...offered by a Mrs. R. B. Stevenson of El Paso, Tex., both tuition and board at M. I. T., where he had really wanted to go. Said he: "It would be foolish of me to refuse. . . . I shall notify the Edison Co. to that effect. . . ." Thus it came to pass that the Brightest Boy in the U. S.- Wilber Brotherton Huston of Olympia, Wash., winner of the Edison contest-will have as his classmate and scholarly competitor one of the Second Brightest Boys. When they emerge from M. I. T. four years hence (if both are graduated), the marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Second Brightest Boy | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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