Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cage will last from 4.30 to 6 o'clock, daily, and practice will be transferred outdoors as soon as the ground is hard enough. After the outdoor work starts, the coaches will be on the field at 3 o'clock, ready to give instruction to punters and forward pass experts...
...hence ethnologists delving into college-midderns, will dig out such artifacts of Homo Universitas as the cram. The cram is a dull, boring weapon used to bar sleep from the study den. It is used to pound, stamp, and otherwise insert into the Universitas head enough assorted facts to pass exams...
This cram, psychologists tell us, does aid students to pass a factual examination. But most of the facts are soon forgotten. Long-time retention suffers. The cram, too, helps little in courses in which a student must interpret theories. The moral, professors say, is "Be prepared"--all through the quarter...
...make in Europe. . . . Numerous cares have weighed me down and uncounted sleepless nights. ... I never felt myself as Dictator of my people but only and always as its Leader. ... I have therefore decided to dissolve the German Reichstag so that the German people by their ballots may now pass judgment on my leadership and on that of my associates...
Climax was a War baby. Sired in 1917, by American Metal, the company took over huge ore deposits near Climax, Colo., a little railroad station perched atop the Fremont Pass at an altitude of 11,000 ft. Gold diggers had discovered the deposits, thought them graphite. Even after they proved to be molybdenum no one was particularly excited because the ore was low-grade (8 lb. to the ton) and Scandinavia and Australia, with small reserves higher in metal content, could more than supply what market there...