Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world, which has so far been able to pass judgment only on Franco's none too striking military qualities, the biggest question mark about Spain was what kind of a ruler he will be. Will he become a dynamic dictator like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and join them in adventures against the peace of the world? Or will he simply be a routine, domestic military dictator of the type of Primo de Rivera, his predecessor? Will his government-after the war is over-be Fascist or will he restore the monarchy...
...approximately 900 positions that cannot be filled from our own medical schools. . . . Currently a relative shortage of interns exists." This shortage, said the Journal, may be remedied if hospitals induce interns to remain two years instead of one, and accept well-trained graduates of foreign medical schools who pass tests given by the National Board of Medical Examiners...
...cutting a light beam up into a certain number of sections per second, then measuring the length of one section. This is like clocking a freight train when you know the length of the cars. If the cars are 30 feet long and you see that two of them pass a given point every second, you know the speed is 60 feet per second...
Airmail service is a big-city luxury. U. S. airlines, hungrily eying the enormous potential postal business for them in small towns, have had to pass it up, since collecting mail on a "milk-route" would be slow because of many stops, uneconomic because of the high cost of landing fields...
...procession filed through the Basilica, Pius XII was halted thrice. Before him a master of ceremonies thrice lit wisps of flax, chanting: "Sancte Pater, sic transit gloria mundi." Thus was the Visible Head of the Holy Church reminded that, even for him, the world's glories pass...