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Word: pass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Minister of Interior Marx Dormoy had double details of steel-helmeted, rifle-equipped Gardes Mobiles posted at the entrances to key Cabinet ministries, including his own. Their orders: "After 9 p. m. shoot to kill anyone who, after being challenged twice, attempts to enter without showing his special pass or giving the password." Under these elaborate precautions nobody was shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Terrible Gravity | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...give me back the dear old cave And my unflattering four-footed friends. I abdicate, and pass the throne to Poly-dore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Shaw's Cymbeline | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Madras (13° N.) and San Antonio (29° N.) furnished valuable data on electrons in the energy band between seven billion and 17 billion volts. These high energy electrons were found to conform to the Bethe-Heitler theory, rapidly losing their power to ionize (electrify) air as they pass through the atmosphere. Since the X-particle's extraordinary penetrating power was entirely out of line with these findings, it could not possibly be an electron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X-Particle | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Halfback Sam Chapman. He is the best punter in the Pacific Coast Conference, a good passer and runner, a fearless ankle-tackler. On the defense Centre Herwig receives sterling support from Guard Claude Evans, one of the most dangerous tacklers in the nation. A possible team weakness is on pass defense, where the backfield is occasionally fooled. California came last week to its annual game with Stanford, having decisively won all its games excepting a 0-0 tie with Washington. Stanford, the most erratic team on the Pacific Coast, still had a chance to win the right to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thunder Team | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Alabama still wants to play in the Rose Bowl. Georgia Tech outplayed the Crimson Tide for three quarters, then four minutes before the game ended, Alabama's Tut Warren caught a forward pass just over the goal line. Score: Alabama 7, Georgia Tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Greatest Player | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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