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Word: pass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very good. There hasn't been so much plot in one place since East Lynne. It all begins in Venice with a clandestine love affair. Then comes the villain to take the hero back to his dying father. Eighteen years and a good deal of dirty work pass. The hero has married the railroad king's daughter and the heroine has become a great actress. Each thinks the other has played false. The villain has attended to that. For revenge the heroine attempts to win the fiance of the hero's daughter, who, of course, turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Cambridge traffic would be helped by this improvement, most of all by the new drives on the Boston bank which would fill in the present gap between Bay State Road and Otter St. The new drive would pass under the arches of the Harvard and Longfellow bridges and would thus give a continuous road which, after crossing Cambridge St., Brighton, at the end of the River St. bridge at grade, will have no other crossing at grade until it reaches the 'end of the Charles River Dam where it connects with Nashua St., which is now being widened. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killam Discusses Proposals to Alter Charles River and Basin | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

Under the terms of the will, which was filed for probate two days ago, the principal of his fortune will ultimately pass to Harvard for one or more scholarships in international law. The University has not yet announced its official acceptance of the bequest, and the amount could not be ascertained yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. M. LYDIG '89 LEAVES LARGE PART OF ESTATE TO HARVARD | 3/13/1929 | See Source »

...Southern California, one Dale Drake, glider expert, persuaded his friend Lloyd O'Donnell to tow his glider by motored plane 200 miles to Long Beach, for a glider rodeo there. Their air train went well for 175 miles, a record air tow. Over Santa Susanna Pass, near San Fernando, the tow rope broke. Glider Drake was left 7,200 ft. in the air. Undaunted, he coasted ten miles and landed safely in a barley field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air Trains | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...National Bank of Commerce, however, was officially established with announcement of officers of the combined institution. No name has been given to the combination, though it was reported that the new bank might be known simply as Guaranty Trust Co., a procedure which would cause Bank of Commerce to pass out of existence in the goth year of its age. As far as merger officers are concerned, Commerce gets the board chairmanship, Guaranty Trust the presidency, as James Strange Alexander, chairman of the board of National Bank of Commerce, and William C. Potter, president of Guaranty Trust, will retain their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banks Bigger | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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