Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When 12 midwestern Republicans joined with Democrats to pass, 54 to 34, Senator McMaster's resolution, it seemed that the administration's tax program, already disjointed by the House and delayed by the Senate, would be disjointed further, longer delayed...
...favorably this time instead of pouching it. But the House was still static. Republican Floor Leader Tilson said: "There is little interest in the House." Speaker Longworth said he could observe "very little sentiment" for the Amendment. Chairman White of the Committee on Elections said the Amendment would surely pass the House if ever it could reach a vote...
...Harvard would again be a party to the Okeson agreement, a meeting of the coaches and officials of 13 of the largest universities in the East was held last week at the New York Yacht Club in New York to hear W. R. Okeson read his report, and to pass upon plans to continue his scheme next year. It is understood that the representatives at the gathering approved the report, but the contents of the report or whether the system would be continued next year by all the institutions represented at the conference, was not disclosed...
...they 'stand.' . . . For my part, I pledge myself to return to England and to try to interpret the vast enterprises of your great empire, for that is what you are building up, in the certain belief that a genuine understanding can be built up between us. ... The palm may pass from us in the future. . . . But our task is in the present. Let us meet it together." After her lecture, Preacher Royden, like every other famed British visitor, was asked what she thought of prohibition. Said she: "It is a marvelous adventure. ... I wish it success...
...shoe-seller, then an ardent saver of .souls. He hammered on the word of God as if it had been a heel-peg, with, determination, with insistence, with enormous vigor, but without superfluous gesticulation. Said D. L. Moody, early in his career: "... I wouldn't let a day pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation . . . There will be 365 in a year that shall hear the gospel from my lips." With Ira David Sankey, who sang hymns, he toured the U. S. and England, giving his solution to the gigantic crossword puzzle...