Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council for the Prevention of War, and also with Professor Hull, who had said something (perfectly true) about the American colonists not having entered the Revolution unanimously. Mrs. Walker was for having Professor Hull deported. Acting Chairman Britten-of the Committee tactfully suggested that the D. A. R. pass a resolution to that effect...
...Creation was known, and history could be traced step by step along a well-charted and limited route for six thousand years, blind faith had definite pegs to which it could attach itself; now when professors carelessly juggle millions of years in a forty-minute lecture, and pass from electrons to infinity in a moment's time, only to discover in a few years that they are wrong, is it any wonder that faith has for many become a dead letter...
...Senate's Sense. It had no legal value. Its moral value was washed out by partisan undercurrents. Its application was so indefinite that Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was moved to say: "You might as well pass a resolution in favor of the Ten Commandments." But the Senate, after three days of wrangling, twitting, theorizing and horseplaying, passed it anyway, 56 to 26-a resolution by boyish Senator LaFollette "that it is the sense of the Senate that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term...
...escape when we meet an 18,000 ton cruiser and were examined by her for two hours. I was a Norwegian captain, but the name of my ship was wrong. It was my hardest examination, and it took a bottle of 100-year-old brandy to help me pass...
...went on, "is to try to raise the boat in a hurry. This is usually impossible, and no method of removing men alive from a trapped vessel has yet proved satisfactory. My suggestion would be to have a lock arrangement constructed in the submarine, through which the men could pass one at a time, and on the outside have them met by divers with extra helmets, who would accompany them...