Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the Jones Bill, to keep the U. S. in the shipping business, seemed unlikely to pass...
...Majesty will have no choice but to take sides, if Parliament passes the new and further revised prayer book of the Church of England (the State Church). Should a bill approving that volume pass and be placed before the Fifth George, he must either sign or refuse to sign. In either case, the disappointed faction would be alienated from the Throne...
...exile in separate, widely dispersed towns of Asiatic Russia. Trotsky was scheduled to speed by rail from Moscow across European Russia, traverse the broad Volga, proceed again by rail through the steppes of Kirghiz and to the end of the line in the mountains of Turkestan. Thence he would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi, topping the uplands of Semirechensk, and distant some 150 miles from the Chinese frontier, 1,800 miles as the crow flies from Moscow, and 500 miles from the border of India. Thus ringed by remoteness, Lev Davidovich Trotsky will...
While railroaders, security holders, bankers and lawyers strove for months and months to reorganize the company, the I. C. C. watched and listened almost jealously,* not only because the I. C. C. would have to pass upon the reorganization when it was evolved, but also because the I. C. C. felt duty-bound and empowered to have a hand in the actual reorganization. In their grudging majority decision, the Commissioners wrote: ". . . We were confronted with two alternatives. The first was to approve in toto the securities proposed . . . the other, to reject them in toto. . . . We should not, however, have been...
...chief difficulty that occurs in trying to pass judgement on "A President is Born", is that it is an unusual attempt and that it is carried out in a very unique fashion. With an objective such as it has, it is difficult to see how any book could be made really compelling and not appear forced; certainly this attempt falls short. As a story it is interesting, vivid and effective, but one feels that it should be infinitely more so. Its chief fault is that it is unnatural...