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Word: pass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination of witnesses cannot be as effective under existing circumstances as if we had had a force of investigators at work in advance, gathering material as a basis for real crossexamination, as is usually done by Congressional committees. As it is, most of the testimony has been pass-the-biscuit-pappy stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Checker-Uppers | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...getting ready to play with 1,000,000 men, the French played their own little game with 20,000 men in the Alps. The problem, set by General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, who not only attended the maneuvers but handshook every man in two regiments: "The capture of a mountain pass and the exploitation of its capture by a movement into the dominated valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Maneuvers | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Hollywood, Republic Pictures announced a cinema starring Gene Autry titled Hillbilly Governor based on the musical campaign of W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, Governor-Nominate of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ears Back | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...world was Armageddon, which lies about ten miles south of Nazareth, 15 miles from the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. The Hebrew word is har magiddo, which may originally have meant "fruitful mountain" or "desirable city." Megiddo, the name by which the site is known to modern archeologists, guards the pass from Egypt through the Carmel ridge to the once-rich valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris. There, according to the Old Testament, "Pharoaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria" and Josiah, in disguise, battled against him. * There Thutmose III of Egypt vanquished the rebellious King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Armageddon | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...whom were graduate students on the road to a doctorate): that Ph.D. degrees are "mass-produced" to the number of 3,000 per year, that the fault is with colleges for requiring that all professors be Doctors of Philosophy. Result, said Dr. Knight, is that rearrangements of known facts pass for contributions to learning. "Knowledge," said the Doctor, "is produced not by taking pains but by having them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Doctor on Doctorates | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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