Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine, had as his chief liability a zealous New Deal enthusiasm that led him last session to break with his southern colleagues over the wages-&-hours legislation. To voters Tom Heflin roared, "Send me to the Senate and I'll see that they don't pass the anti-lynching bill." But the idea of sending Tom Heflin back to the Senate for any reason whatever, according to nearly complete returns, appealed to only 48,000 Alabamians, as against 88.000 willing to try Lister Hill...
Then, instead of directing the jury as is customary to deliberate simultaneously on all three counts of the indictments-pass-ing the note, possessing it, and conspiring to pass it-the Justice charged them to consider the first point alone. Neither Attorney Leibowitz nor Assistant U. S. Attorney John J. Dowling had ever heard of such a procedure, but they made no objection. When the jurymen returned from this simplified task in the record time of an hour and a half, announcing that they had found Palmer guilty and Morosi innocent of passing the note, Justice Van Devanter proceeded...
...endorsement message claims the "possibilities are great to pass social legislation," because in consideration of the important 1988 elections "politicians will be afraid to make a bad showing on progressive bills...
Rough outdoor ice and the absence of side boards hampered play until the final frame when the visiting offensive finally began to click. Curtiss netted a pass from Gray in 3:36 and Fuller tied the score on a solo dash by slipping a hard shot past goalie Hanford...
After a succession of melees in front of the home team's goal Hulse rifled the winning tally through Harding net tender for the schoolboys, on a pass from...