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Word: pass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding, pass receiver par excellence and colourful end whose fame for 1929 is secure because he grabbed two of Barry Wood's aerials out of the dusk in the contests against the Cadets and the Gators. He is a ranking scholar athlete and intends to complete his college course in three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...Vagabond enjoys two outside lectures which promise to provide him with no little interesting material. The process of rounding off the rough edges, which long years of concentration and distribution have left on his education is a thoroughly pleasant one, and the Vagabond is not the man to let pass by the opportunity to learn a little about art and literature when the occasion comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

...that the human ear drum and surrounding tissues act in the same manner as the condenser plate of a radio receiver. He stuck one of his fingers into an ear of one of his audience, modulated a high frequency current by speaking into a transmitter, let the modulated current pass through his body to his finger tip to the man's ear. The man "heard" Mr. Grace's words. The man felt as though he were thinking Mr. Grace's phrases. It seemed like thought transference. No hocus-pocus was it, however, but an understandable, verifiable, physical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Talking Phone Dials | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...line, held stubbornly, and punted out of danger, for the moment at least. Starting on the opponents' 30-yard stripe, a trio of Sophomore backs, Mays, Devens and White, carried down again, Mays finally scoring on a lateral from Devens In the final period White speared a Holy Cross pass, raced 33 yards to the Purple 3-yard line, whence Devens smashed his way over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPERIOR POWER DOWNS CRUSADERS IN DRAB CONTEST | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...silhouettes; and the closing scenes, employing an enlarged screen, are among the few good bits of technicolor the movies have thus far offered. "In Orange Blossom Tinte", with its beauty of color and brilliant shots from strange angles, particularly makes one realize that artistic photography did not altogether pass out with silent pictures...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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