Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Live" magazine delves into the past of an American tavern girl who would become a lady; that she never quite succeeds until age has given her a dignity that might well pass as gentility is immaterial, for the course of her peregrinations on her quest provide a bonanza of risque and highly humorous situations...
...Harvard senior, one of those rare personages who occasionally turn up to confound the "how many steps are there on your front porch see you don't know although you climb them every day" dictum of modern psychologists, recently sat in his room, desperately put to pass the time between 1:45 o'clock and 1:55 o'clock when he could amble off to a class. Idly he eyed the cover of the October 1 Saturday Evening Post, which depicted a night football game; and idly he began to count the yard-lines on the grid-iron there displayed...
...which is three fold; first, to how great a degree should a man of illustrious forebears allow himself to be governed by the ethics of his ancestors; second, if faced by circumstances of ebbing health and wealth, how much of his ancient heritage is he morally obliged to pass on to his immediate posterity; and, third, when his family has received the tangible evidence of its historic past, is that evidence to be cherished and held at all cost, or is it to be disposed of as too dear in the light of a changing world...
...ball on Harvard's 21-yard line, third down and nine to go, tailback Foley ordered the first of the bag of tricks which the elements had necessitated keeping tied up to that point. He faked a kick, drew the whole Eli line in, and then shot a diagonal pass to Green, who was finally pulled down on the 40. A play later and "Flash" Macdonald was off on a tackle slant. Picking up speed despite the field, he went deep into enemy territory and was finally forced out on the ten-yard line...
Heralding Saturday's victories, the Houses made a clean sweep of their games with the Yale colleges on Friday afternoon. Lowell beat Pierson 14-0 in a game featured by the two brilliant runs of Mel Gordon. The Adams House contingent defeated Saybrook 7-0 on a pass from Lewis to Whitman. Eliot House won its first and only game of the season by winning from Jonathan Edwards 6-0 with Donahue making the touchdown. The Dudley Hall Ramblers beat Timothy Dwight 7-5 in their touch-football game...