Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are three methods of scoring. A kick under the cross bar of the goal posts nets three points; a forward pass completed in the end zone, two points; and a drop kick over the cross bar, one point. By these different ratings, the significance of the kicking and passing elements is made more equal...
...ornamentally idle have been the lives of military aides to the President that Army and Navy he-men well have dreaded the assignments, right honorable though they are. The chief duties were: 1) to stand grandly by when the President received new foreign envoys; 2) to pass tea and sandwiches smilingly at White House at-homes; 3) to add splendor to the President's official trips...
...because of furious competition in the under-$1,000 field; and because of prevailing U. S. prosperity. Production of 1,500,000 cars in the first three months of 1929 of course does not mean that the year will reach a 6,000,000 total, but that it should pass the 5,000,000 mark is a conservative estimate. Previous record (1928) was 4,635,000. There are seven or eight million Model T Fords to be replaced, some millions of 4-cylinder Chevrolets that have become antiquated by the Chevrolet shift from a Four to a Six, and four...
...Sugar Refining Co. called importantly at the presidential palace of Gen. Machado. His remarks were terse and to the point. Now that the experiment had failed, he declared, let there be no thought of repeating it. And let all traces of the disaster be expunged. Let Sugar Export Co. pass quietly into oblivion...
Ralph T. Walker of Manhattan has designed a brown, congenial, masculine study for a country house. Two octagonal electric lanterns are hung by rods which pass through slots in the ceiling. They may be raised for general illumination, lowered for reading, moved laterally to any desired position...