Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historians will probably not linger long over the Democratic Convention of 1936. They will record the automatic renomination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner, refer briefly to a platform hand-made at the White House (see p. 14), remark on the high spirits of the delegates and pass on to matters of larger moment. But many a young Democrat will long remember his Party's Philadelphia party last week as one of the wildest political jamborees ever staged. Whatever the donkey's doings may have lacked in heavy brain work, it more than made...
...other Russian ports. Comrade Litvinoff did not think foreign warships could make courtesy visits to Black Sea ports without incurring suspicion that their purpose was "aggressive." To Turkish proposals that the straits be closed to all submarines, Orator Litvinoff replied that Soviet submarines must have the right to pass, others might perhaps be excluded, and that aircraft carriers of the nonBlack Sea powers should certainly be barred...
...auction by an astute namesake of the British Admiralty's famed Samuel Pepys. In the great hall, between gleaming white Corinthian columns, long-dead British Admirals look down from heavily encrusted frames. After running this gantlet, guests arriving for an Admiralty ball admire the graceful, branching staircase, pass on to the drawing room, its walls hung with paintings of the voyages of Captain Cook. The amazing gilded furniture is the cele brated "Fish Set" presented in 1815 as a memorial to Lord Nelson by wealthy John Fish, who had the chair legs carved as dolphins standing on their heads...
...truckloads of other growers' potatoes going to market. In Maine, No. 1 U. S. potato State, where a 165-lb. barrel last year sold at the warehouse for as little as 10?, some 10,000 carloads were dumped into swamps. This was the situation that led Congress to pass the famed Warren Potato Control...
...into the private affairs of its customers. They study balance sheets, earnings statements, profit & loss accounts, weigh character, reputation, personal habits. But the final element in credit is "ledger experience," the record of how bills were paid in the past. Local credit associations collect ledger experience from their members, pass it on to a national clearing house in the National Association. Between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 credit records are always on file for the use of members...