Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present time too many students are admitted to college merely on their ability to obtain high grades at school, and to pass the comparatively simple requirements of the college boards. Little attention is paid to a student's ability to adjust himself to a new scholastic standard, to a new intellectual, social and moral environment. Too many men who lack sufficient moral and mental stability, arrive at college, and because they are unprepared to cope with entirely different conditions, they often are ruthlessly "flunked out." Many of these unfortunates are thus led to believe that they are complete failures...
...first real bomb. Pointing straight at a small man seated quietly in the gallery, his voice tense with passion, the wiry South Carolinian cried: "The South may just as well know , . . that it has been deserted by the Democrats of the North. . . . One Negro . . . has ordered this bill to pass and if a majority can pass it, it will pass. . . . If Walter White," and Jimmy Byrnes was fairly shouting his angry tribute, "should consent to have this bill laid aside, its advocates would desert it as quickly as football players unscramble when the whistle of the referee is heard...
...unclassified and unlicensed nurses. Most of these latter are competent, well-meaning "practical nurses" who have had some experience in caring for the sick and can help around the house. Some, however, are graduates of unaccredited schools, including "correspondence schools." A few are ignorant, crafty persons who pass themselves off as trained nurses. The pres-ent State law does not forbid unlicensed nurses to practice, or define the practice of nursing generally, or forbid unaccredited schools to operate...
...days of the New Year 65,000 people on the relief rolls went without food and clothing orders. This hardship, which caused one reliefer to commit suicide, was due, as Cleveland's Mayor Harold H. Burton explained, to the "inexcusable failure of the State of Ohio" to pass a relief act before the year...
Midway through the second frame, Captain Bob Burke of Princeton slapped a penalty shot into the net at 12.44 to tie the count after Freedley had climaxed three spectacular saves by sitting on the puck. Late in the period Ralph Pope took Harding's pass and broke the deadlock at 18.07. In the final frame Harding sank Roberts' pass at 5.20. The Crimson held the Tiger at bay until just before the final bell, when Barnicle beat Freedley for the last score...