Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University has its own subway cable car crossing Mass. Ave. The top of the Boston subway tube is but two feet under the surface of the street, and through this two feet must pass Harvard's main heating tunnel from the Houses to the Yard...
...that engineers may also pass, a small cart has been placed in the tunnel. Thus, lying prone on the cart, with the trolleys a few inches above the nape of his neck and the subway just below him, the engineer grasps a cable and draws himself and cart through the tunnel...
Under the Neutrality Act, which expires Feb. 29 unless Congress makes up its dubious mind to pass a new one, anyone in the U. S. who sells arms, ammunition or implements of war to any foreign country must get a license from the State Department. Object of the law is to keep Secretary Hull informed of the operations of U. S. "Dealers of Death." Incidental effect of the law is to make Secretary Hull aware of the Buyers of Death. Last week he issued a summary of U. S. armament exports for January revealing the nations that spent...
...establishing the University of Chicago's famed New Plan (TIME, Dec. 1, 1930 et seq.) prodigious President Robert Maynard Hutchins left the gates wide open to prodigies inclined to step up the academic pace. Smart students may receive their degrees as soon as they are able to pass examinations...
...courses as Government 1 and Biology D. In these courses, each question in the examination is assigned to one section or laboratory man, so that each man is concerned with a subject on which he is either an authority or has ample time to become one. The books just pass hand to hand until all the questions have been taken care of. The result is that all parts of each paper have received sober and competent attention; but, more important, all the papers have received exactly the same treatment...