Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience, most Congressmen felt that if the bill was sent back to committee, it would probably never reemerge. After five long weeks of fruitless wrangling, Congress was finally taking its first conclusive action on one of the four items which Franklin Roosevelt had called it into extraordinary session to pass...
...Goddess who helped "produce the land and people of Japan"-that the President of the U. S. was shocked and concerned at Japan's behavior. For Japanese-American relations had not been so clarified as mealy-mouthed Admiral Honda believed, and they had reached a more dangerous pass than he might have cared to believe last week when Japanese bombers sank the U. S. river gunboat, Panay...
...last week were an able Baptisam of our Savour by Ann Johnson, age unknown, and five "mourning pictures"- families standing at tombs overhung with weeping willows. Inscriptions: "The Grass Witherith, the Flower Fadeth, and the Hopes of Man is Destroyed"; "Our Dying Friends are Pioneers to Smooth our Rugged Pass to Death...
They went even crazier when the Redskins scored first in the first quarter after "Slingin' Sam" Baugh had whipped a pass to the Chicago 7-yd. line and Cliff Battles had gone around right end on a fake pass. Then the Bears warmed up and scored two quick touchdowns, both by Jack Manders, the league's leading scorer. The quarter ended with the Bears leading 14-to-7. The second quarter was scoreless, and Redskin rooters moaned when Sam Baugh was pulled out from under four of the larger Bears and was led off the field...
...Department would do well to offer a series of courses in the History and practical creation of stage settings for those of artistic inclination who are interested in the drama. The fact that a man took two or three of these courses need not interfere with his ability to pass the General Examination in Fine Arts, which are primarily historical, if such studies were offered as purely extra or related work, aside from the regular historical courses now given in the department. Concentration in the artistic phase of the drama need not be allowed, provided that men interested in stage...