Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pass that up," snapped big Col. Stewart...
...regulation of the affairs of the University and in safeguarding its interests. The student being in direct contact only with the effects of the administration, is likely to have at best a vague knowledge of the actual causes and agencies through which these effects are brought to pass. Being among the trees he is not likely to see the woods until he has passed through. So the student while he is directly in the field of jurisdiction of the Board of Overseers regards the Board with proper deference but with little understanding. As one of the powers behind the throne...
...long as the people can exercise unimpeded their right to choose the, executive, it is their prerogative to support a man of great constructive ability, if any shall appear, until the need for him no longer exists. But if the legislative body, in formal session, is to thus pass resolutions against an individual candidate, the fear at once arises that a powerful administration could keep its leader indefinitely. Such, indeed, is the procedure in England, but it is efficient because the governing functions are not torn every four years by the dissensions of campaigning. The existence of the two methods...
...bandit, hardly willing to identify himself as a justifiable target, must be shot, first and approached afterwards. Again, he must be shot, for the safety of his persecutor, at a reasonable distance. Sent from the hand of an excitable person evisioning rewards, the bullet is more than likely to pass through several estimable citizens before it reaches some suspect later found both innocent and dead. The weapons of prohibition agents have taught the country the menace of the armed pursuit of offenders. Both the security of Texas banks and an offective, sensible handling of social enemies are laudable ends...
...been through a CRIMSON competition himself and watched many others do likewise it is evident that there are certain regular stages which practically all candidates pass through First there is the stage of discouragement, what might properly be termed the 'danger stage.' It usually comes after the first few days; the candidate has worked hard with small success, he is jostled and croweded by other candidates who always seem to have some unwonted advantage over him. It is during this period that most candidates drop out; those who persist despite its disappointments seldom fall to achieve their goal. Then...