Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Smith ought to know better than interfere in a family quarrel. Italy's present imports of oil are around 2,000,000 tons a year. This does not include imports for naval and military use (estimated at another 1,000,000 tons) which do not pass through the customs. The Italian oil company which has the exploitation of Albania's oil resources produced 120,-ooo tons last year, and hopes (perhaps over-sanguinely) to produce 300,000 tons...
...Aside from his military display for Dictator Somoza, Franklin Roosevelt let the week pass without making any further reply to Dictator Hitler's sarcastigation of last fortnight. But young Adolf A. Berle Jr., his European sharpshooter at the State Department, was permitted to sound off in Manhattan before the Academy of Political Science. He declared that the American nations meant what they said last winter at Lima: Dictators keep...
Highest score was made by Chicago's Donald Wallace Connor, who got 211 of the 290 questions. Said a less successful examinee: "Anyone who could pass that test doesn't need to go to college...
Undesirable in its Harvard Square forms because it makes a farce of true education. Students pass examinations, they do not learn as a result of their cramming. And again, because such tutoring mocks Harvard's standards and degrades her degree, it should be exterminated. If the tutoring is by Wolff, let the diploma be by Wolff, but not by Harvard. It is further undesirable because it destroys initiative and the will to honest toil; because it makes students lazily dependent upon a crutch they would not otherwise...
Healey was pitted against Indian ace, Chief Wonson, and Tom ran into trouble right from the start. His control wasn't quite what it can be, and the Indians made him work pretty hard. Hanna opened up by drawing a pass, and then Gus Broberg exploded the first ball pitched to him for a home run into some broken down right field bleachers...