Word: pass
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anxiety to get off to Arkansas and Texas this week, Franklin Roosevelt canceled all ordinary engagements for the last half of last week so he could give his attention to steering the bills he wished to pass Congress, blocking the bills he wanted dropped. Then Death laid a finger on Speaker Byrns (see col. 3) and all President Roosevelt's plans changed. Instead of going on to the Capitol on Saturday to sign last-minute bills, he went there Friday to the Speaker's funeral, traveled to Nashville for the Speaker's interment. At Nashville...
...there ever has been any reckless, careless way of handling Government funds, the evidence in this case certainly shows it. It is not the duty of this court to pass on those matters. It is not interested in them. Here you have seen for yourself the setup where billions of dollars are being expended and yet it is sent down here, and you say 'go ahead and build your own setup, you go ahead and handle it.' How you are going to handle it, the Lord only knows...
...year 1549 as Marshal Badoglio may well be cured. Wrote Michelangelo: "I am immensely better. For about two months I have been drinking morning and evening water from a spring about forty miles from Rome, which breaks the stone. It has broken mine and enabled me to pass a good deal of it in my urine. I must lay in a store of it and use it exclusively in drinking and cooking and change my way of living.'' After taking the cure at Fiuggi, the Viceroy of Ethiopia was slated to return to take up residence at Addis...
...light so that it vibrates in one plane only. Laymen understand polarization more readily if they imagine that a beam of light, vibrating in all directions, is a flight of straws blown along helter-skelter by the wind. If the straws collide with a picket fence, some will pass through if they happen to be aligned vertically with the gaps between the palings. Thus all the straws that get through will be parallel to one another...
...gaps which comb light are a crystal's parallel planes of cleavage. Polaroid is a suspension of crystals. The dazzling headlights at last week's demonstration were dimmed because the Polaroid in the lenses and in the windshield was aligned in conflicting directions. The light could thus pass through one but not through both...