Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington there was joy aplenty at the prospect of Mr. Morrow in the Senate. Particularly pleased was President Hoover, whose enthusiasm had really brought the Morrow appointment to pass. If a President ever needed in the Senate a friend of the personality and capabilities credited to Mr. Morrow, that President is Herbert Hoover...
...requirements are not at all excessive: 1000 words a week and one long theme of 2000 words every month, on any subject whatsoever, from light phantasmagoria to Socratic dialogue. There is no final examination nor is it necessary to attend the lectures to pass with an honor grade...
...course were eager to read this particular work I appreciate the necessity of getting additional copies for the library. Since there has never been a complaint on this matter before, I take it that the great increase in the enrollment has created an unexpected difficulty. But let me pass to other points. Your writer states that there are approximately 200 men in the course. In reality there are only 160, so that your writer is rather wide of the mark. He is also rather misleading when he says that the thesis is due the week following the examination. This...
...essay on the July Monarchy, but it is clear to me from his further remarks, that he understood this to mean that he was to write the history of the July Monarchy in twenty minutes. His estimate of my judgment seems to be desperately low, but let that pass. My real purpose was to find out what the members of the course would say about the July. Monarchy if they had only fifteen minutes to say it. I believe and I still maintain that it is quite possible to give a brief characterization of the regime of Louis Philippe...
...entire fight, and down to the present moment, the liquor forces have had one great advantage. They have been well financed. The liquor interests have always provided ample funds. No one has had a direct financial interest in fighting against liquor. The dry forces have always had to pass the hat. Gradually, however, all socially minded people have come to see the social side of the question, and they have responded to appeals for voluntary contributions more and more generously. Millions of small contributions have come in. But the dry forces have never had funds enough to carry...