Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City street awaiting busses for political picnics. The men-of-the-families had paid $2 for Hoover tickets, $2.50 for Smith tickets. The day lengthened. The sun grew hot. The children made friends, played, squealed, quarreled. The men compared tickets, oaths and boredom. No busses, no picnics came to pass. All, angry, went home...
...emotional being, last week, when President Calles said: "For the first time in Mexican history the Republic faces a situation whose dominant note is the lack of a leader of military power. . . . This is the most solemn hour of our national life. ... I consider it necessary that we pass from a system of government by one man to a government of institutions. ... It is useless to seek an outstanding or dictatorial person. May I say there are none...
...best ultraviolet glass, when a little old, lets only one third of the available ultraviolet sun rays pass through. (Manufacturers claim no more...
What had the artist against the explorer to do such a thing and where was your art editor when he let it pass...
...murder. It scoffed at Calles' "thirst for justice," declared that his own guilt was obvious to anyone who had followed, step by step, events in Mexico. "The road which led him, together with Obregon, over the corpses of Carranza, Gomez and Serrano, led Calles fatally to pass also over Obregon's dead body ... did his best to hide the key that makes the truth obvious...