Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buzzer buzzes. Up jumps the Job-Seeker. No. 1 Secretary goes to investigate. If all is well, he opens another white door for the Job-Seeker to pass, through a short passage, into a large green oval room with three bay windows at one end, a marble fireplace (with fire) at the other. At a flat-topped mahogany desk sits the President...
...rush hour one evening last week a train of ten carloads of commuters slid down into a Hudson Tube from the Manhattan side. A fire of waste oil was burning on the tracks ahead. The motorman put on speed to pass over it. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. An automatic safety device set the brakes. The train was stalled with its third and fourth cars over the flames. Smoke filled the air. The ant passengers cursed, prayed and moaned, beat, trampled and rescued one another. Three more trains halted behind the first in the confusion...
...labor of preparing designs for a new series of stamps would be so great that a considerable time must pass before collectors could possibly add them to their treasures...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh, flying from east to west across the continent swerved south to Eagle Pass, Tex., to Mexico City, to pay a visit...
There seems to be no adequate reason why Harvard undergraduates or the students of any other college or university should be cooped up in designated "halls" where they would be expected to pass most of their time. This proposed artificial method, alleged by its sponsors to be educationally advantageous, certainly isn't conducive to individualism...