Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of these implications is true. Much as we white swing men would like to take credit for the renaissance of swinging, justice compels us to pass it along to a very black musician, Jimmie Lunceford...
Other conventionalities: The delegates did not pass a resolution . which proposed "that we seek legislation to do away with the Supreme Court, for unjust decisions," but they did pass one urging legislation to banish "fear of Constitutional inhibitions on the part of Federal courts...
...first "Stakhanovite Month" were abruptly canceled. Shrewd Alexei Stakhanov, who has said frankly that in the U. S. he would be beaten up by fellow workers for what he has done (TIME, Dec. 16), now receives as a holder of the Order of Lenin a lifelong pension and a pass permitting him to travel free twice a year on Soviet railways, boats, airplanes, trams and busses...
...class of 1934, Phi Beta Kappa, potent ping pong player. Caught with evidence of his work, Cartland typed out a confession, reeled off a list of his clients. Brilliant, with a phenomenal memory, Cartland had supported himself and widowed mother through his cheating service. With the aid of pass keys and confederates he had pirated many an examination from professors' rooms, sold questions and answers at fixed prices. Failing this, he stationed himself in a toilet near the examination room. Students took their questions to him there, bought answers. Early last week, with evidence in hand, Student President Jack...
...work, are allowed to go their own way, with the blessing of the tutor thus released from some of his overwork. The committee's suggestion is therefore already, though somewhat tacitly, in effect. But the students in question are not thus given very much stimulus to education. They merely pass their courses, slither past the minimum requirements, and get a degree signifying little more than four years' watching innumerable and golden opportunities...