Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continue its activities throughout the spring term, the Phi Beta Kappa tutoring bureau puts the capstone upon a career so notable for unselfish service as to be almost inexplicable to common men. For several years the members of the bureau have been quietly helping their less successful follows to pass their less successful follows to pass their mid-year examinations. The absence of any charge for this service places the work upon a plane of undiluted self-sacrifice, since the teaching experience is of such a specialized nature that it must seldom be of any future...
Great Britain has too large a navy and too much influence in the world of commerce to allow the enforcement of prohibition with its attending harshness to pass off as a good joke, as the Siamese Legation found it expedient to do. Several years ago Great Britain waived certain rights of the high seas to the American Government in recognizing the twelve-mile limit and in permitting the American coast guard cutters to enforce the laws of their country in the waters about Bermuda and Jamaica. But they did not include the right to sink ships that are flying...
...that most notoriously moist common wealth, New York State, the Drys in the Assembly last week attempted to pass a State prohibition enforcement act. The Wets tipped it upside down by adding in committee a rider making it applicable only to liquor of more than 6% alcoholic content. Later the Assembly killed the whole measure...
...statuette fascinated the late Michael Dreicer, famed Manhattan jeweller. Shortly before his death he arranged to buy it for 350,000 francs. After he died, the bank handling the Dreicer estate engaged Sir Joseph Duveen to pass judgment on the authenticity of the statuette, for which 100,000 francs had already been paid. Sir Joseph called it a modern fake, and the bank promptly refused further payments. Mr. Demotte brought suit. Sir Joseph insisted that he had libeled no one, but had merely expressed a solicited opinion. Mr. Demotte's death kept the affair from the courts...
...clipping from The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, appearing in an adjoining column, declares as one with the privilege of knowledge that opposition to the House Plan is "inconsiderable", and is bound to decrease rapidly. This optimism might pass unnoticed, a species of whistling to keep the courage up in the face of the facts, if its zeal did not plunge into a series of generalities as unwarranted as they are sweeping...