Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the most baffling of the miscellaneous establishments is the Harvard Yenching Institute. On the average of nearly once a day the average Harvard man passes the Institute's imposing sign in Boylston Hall. He may be moved to investigate, but the old indifference all too quickly crops out, and with a shrug of his shoulders and possibly a remark such as "Let them yench," he will pass on his way. It takes an inquiring mind to find out that the Institute is carrying on research work for Chinese and Occidental scholars and that it supports several institutions in China...
...more power than she could use and at too high prices. It would cost the Province some $400,000,000 over a period of the next 40 years to pay what she owed under these contracts-so in effect "Mitch" simply tore them up by having his Parliament pass the Power Act of 1935 by which he declared the contracts "illegal, void and unenforceable...
...downtown and London's new Lullingstone Airport's area-700 acres. But none of these has New York's seaplane facilities which might swell the total of all air passengers into New York to 1,000,000 a year instead of the 300,000 that now pass through Newark. Referring to North Beach Airport's completion-its start happily coincides with Fiorello LaGuardia's campaign for re-election-the Mayor of New York, with marked emphasis on the "I" confidently boomed. "Colonel Somervell and I will open it at Easter 1939, in time...
...expression "I was thinking" at a meeting, whereupon a woman said: "Rufus, thy testimony was interesting, but thee does wrong to think in meeting." Once, also, he was mountain-climbing with a member of the Rowntree family and two guides, and complied with the guides' request to pass a liquor bottle from one to the other. At this Climber Rowntree stuck his Alpine stock into the snow, intoned a quotation from the Friends Book of Discipline: "Are Friends careful to avoid the use of liquors and the passing of them to others...
...certain characteristics which could not possibly have been developed by inherited experience, since the experience in question is fatal. Example: protective coloring in insects. If the coloring is defective and the insect is detected and devoured by preying birds, it cannot profit by the experience of being eaten or pass on any profit to any offspring. Only alternative is the neo-Darwinist conclusion that the insects which happen to have the most protective coloring will live longest and pass on their advantages to large numbers of offspring...