Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain, diplomats have moved from Burgos, which Spaniards claim is Spain's hottest spot in summer and coldest in winter, to San Sebastián, on the Bay of Biscay, and Generalissimo Franco planned to pass the summer in a new seaside home presented to him by the nation near his birthplace at El Ferrol, in Galicia, recently renamed El Ferrol del Caudillo in his honor...
...apologize for entering the Kalgan war zone without a military pass and shall never knowingly commit the same error in the future in any Japanese war zone in China. Any information I may have got since May 25 will never be transmitted to the Chinese side." Despite the intervention in Tokyo of British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie, Lieut. Colonel Spear was still in prison...
Each Black Mountain student, with faculty advice, lays out his own course, takes comprehensive examinations when he thinks he is ready to go from the junior to the senior division, where he specializes in one field. To graduate (usually, but not necessarily, after four years), he must pass an examination, given by a professor from another college, in his major field. Although they need not go to classes, most students do. Classes are informal, are often held outdoors. Boys and girls wear shorts or jeans, smoke, call their teachers by their first names...
...third of the nation will soon pass the half-century mark. Average life expectancy in the U. S. is now 60 years, and physicians believe it can never be raised above 75. Reason: although cancer and bacterial diseases may eventually be controlled, bones will eventually buckle and warp, arteries will eventually harden. > About half the old people in the U. S. die from diseases of the circulatory system (hardening of the arteries, heart trouble), 12.5% from diseases of the respiratory system (pneumonia, influenza), 12.5% from cancer, 8.5% from kidney disease, the rest from diseases of the digestive system, or accidents...
...Howard Schultz Anders of Philadelphia hates dirt and dust. He has spent 50 of his 72 years chasing it out of city streets. In the early 1900s Dr. Anders induced the Pennsylvania State Legislature to pass an antispitting law. He also forced the Philadelphia transit company to replace dirty plush streetcar seats with clean, bare benches. In 1919, during a local row over politics in the street-cleaning system, he raised a dust storm with his carpet-beating outburst: "Dust is pulverized poison and we have seen in Filthadelphia too much drifting into damned deferential silences...