Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only recently I managed to answer TIME'S general information test 97% correctly, so the old faculties seem to be working reasonably well. From the moral aspect, I have never been in jail, am living with the same wife I married 22 years ago, and still pass the plate occasionally. Financially, I am an officer or director in some dozen assorted corporations, able to keep two children in college with an occasional steak at home, and enjoy an income (still greatly reduced) that would make the average member of the Class of 1911, as reported by Mr. Tunis, green...
...bird's head into a clamp from the short, inside belt. About a foot farther on, a lever is pressed down, completing an electrical circuit. Some 1,000 to 1,500 volts, depending on the size of the fowl, stepped up by transformers from ordinary house current, pass through the victim, shooting out its tail like an angry cock's, stunning it instantly. The fowl passes on to a revolving circular knife which slits its throat, then through a hot bath to the pluckers...
Uninformed investors looking for gold stocks might pass over Kaw Crow, Grull Wihksne, McLeod Cockshutt, Cotton Belt, Porcupine Crown, Buffalo Ankerite, Canadian Malartic, Ymir Yankee Girl. But 'they could hardly resist the most glittering name of all-Yukon Gold. From an investment manual they would be shockingly undeceived. Yukon Gold does nothing but mine tin in the Federated Malay States...
First touchdown of the afternoon was the result of the A team's second play, a beautifully executed bit of teamwork and timing--a pass from George Roberts to Gibby Winter, followed by a lateral to Vernon Struck and some fancy stepping on his part, ending in a tally. Roberts failed to convert, hitting one of the uprights...
This holding fire is not cowardice or even restraint, for the play is not nearly so interested in ideas as in its people. Reddish remarks pass current, but they develop the characters, not the characters them. Bishop Holden, champion of the old order, although a little sententious, is not made to look ridiculous; Martin Paterson, champion of the new, is as non-chalant as that genial Communist, Earl Browder, and gladly abandons his lectures...