Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time around the sun, the earth swung this week squarely between the sun and the moon. Earth's shadow did not turn the moon entirely dark, because enough sunlight was bent around the earth by atmospheric refraction to illuminate the satellite dimly. Since long red wavelengths of sunlight pass through layers of atmosphere more easily than short blue wavelengths, the color of the eclipsed moon was a dark, dull, coppery...
...check on the appeal of his booklets, Weaver likes to toss one in the gutter outside the General Motors Building in Detroit. Then he peers from a doorway, counting the passers until someone picks it up. If 100 pass without stopping, the design is a failure; if only 34 go by, it is a sure success...
...Burnett, Macdonald's understudy who played most of the second half when Torb retired with his biffed eye, rang up Harlow's fifth touchdown on a very fine 50-yard run. By this time the team's blocking had taken a definite brace. After Green had intercepted an enemy pass and Virginia got a 15-yard roughness penalty for flagrant piling on top of Gardella, Harvard pushed over its final marks, with Smith, who relieved Gardella, going over...
...only time throughout the came Yale then assumed control momentarily. Recovering a fumble, the Yales resorted to the air, and after two unsuccessful attempts, Lamoreaux shot a 30-yard pass to Hogan, who was downed in his tracks. McClure ended the Eli threat by intercepting on his own goal line and running the ball back...
...easy to pass that one off by replying "Oh, he's not up for election." Questions like "Do I have to vote for only one? It would be so nice to give them all a chance," presented more serious difficulties, which, however, if insoluble, could be passed on to those in attitude was taken by an elderly woman who fortified herself by saying that "Curley has been in there too long. It was no use explaining that Hurley and Curley were not the same...