Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some few moments later a limousine with bullet-proof glass windows stops at the door. Up the stair stalks Il Duce. He enters the presence of the dead, alone. Like a soldier, like a ramrod, he stands at attention beside the bier. Minutes pass. No tears, no prayers, no rattling of beads. At last Signor Mussolini salutes the dead and strides away...
More than 7,000 miles lie between Paris and Buenos Aires, a rail and boat journey of three weeks, but letters will soon pass from one to the other in ten days. Planes will carry mail from Paris to Toulouse, to Alicante, Tangier, Casablanca, and Dakar on Cape Verde off the coast of Africa. A special boat will carry the mail to the most northeasterly point of Brazil. And there planes will again take up the burden, resuming service to the Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay. Charge for one letter: circa...
...Filled with pity, and remembering his Master's art, a Catholic priest, by taking the girl to the Red Cross, enabled this Mary to see. Great miracle among great miracles was again brought to pass, this time by mundane skill...
...pupils to college. . . . Our objective is not to train a chosen few for higher education, but to prepare all our students for American conditions of life. . . . The, only tests which the colleges use in determining the fitness of a boy are intellectual tests. ... A Leopold or a Loeb could pass them easily...
Resolutions drawn up by N. E. A. included: 1) a demand that Congress pass the Curtis-Reed bill creating a Secretary of Education in the President's Cabinet; 2) a condemnation of all political interference with school superintendents...