Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very glad to sign a card for the renewal of my subscription to TIME for two years. This is one magazine that I read that never goes in the wastebasket. After I have finished with a copy I pass it on to a friend who is not a subscriber, two or three of which I know have become subscribers after reading my copy...
Grand Sachem Voorhis, by no means feeble, thanked everyone and announced that he hoped to pass his 100th birthday with Alfred Emanuel Smith in the White House. He also said: "Everybody talks about Tammany . . . but hardly anyone seems to know. To listen to them talk you'd think that the Tammany Society was one and the same thing as the Democratic party of this city. But it's not. The Democratic party became connected with Tammany only because it began years ago to hold its meetings in our hall...
...signed remained the Muscle Shoals Bill, to put the U. S. in the nitrate and power business with its Wartime plant on the Tennessee River in Alabama. A "pocket veto" was urged, feared, hoped, predicted for this measure which the Congress took a decade to pass...
...nature of a healing process. If the irritation were stopped at this stage the lungs would heal. It is the increasing accumulation of silica particles and the continued growth of fibres that finally cause death. Perhaps the present agitation will move the New York State Legislature to pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four years. The Board of Transportation at any rate is eager to do its immediate utmost. Said deputy chief engineer Colonel John R. Slattery: ". . . Two methods of preventing trouble from this source have been approved. They are the use of gas masks and the carrying...
Incensed against censors, many persons have pointed out that if legal authorities are permitted to judge of obscenity in contemporary works of art, there is no consistency in depriving them of the right to pass upon old works of art which are still in circulation. Thus it would be logical and just for a warden of morals to take exception to many passages in Shakespeare, to large chunks of the Holy Bible. An expert upon nude statuary might condemn, and rightly condemn, the Venus de Milo...