Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week most Western observers seemed to be muffing that essential point. If the anti-Communist world failed to understand the Tito crisis, it would pass up a Kremlin-sent opportunity for a victory in the Cold War-a war which, for the West, consists of one-third military preparedness, one-third economic recovery, and one-third political action that has to begin with a knowledge of what the Communist parties are all about...
...hitch-and-kick* at eight feet. He put together a nondescript dog team, began mushing supplies for the sourdoughs. He blazed a 1,400 mile dog-team trail from Dawson to Nome. He toted a piano on his back up the 1,200 ft. of Chilkoot Pass. With a corpse as cargo, he mushed over the mountains, 400 miles from Fairbanks to Valdez, in 28 days...
...N.E.A. convention asked President Truman for a special session of Congress to pass federal aid to education (a request that Harry Truman wasn't likely to act on). N.E.A. also wanted the U.S. to start a $10 billion school building program, and to fire 100,000 "undertrained" emergency elementary-school teachers...
...explode. One theory: when they reach some unstable state their matter "collapses." The electrons circling around the atomic nuclei move inward and combine with the equal number of protons that they find in the nucleus, forming neutrons. These occupy very little space compared with the original atom, and can pass through ordinary matter...
Idlewild's official dedication will begin this month as the city's Golden Anniversary International Air Exposition, when 1,000 Air Force planes will pass in review before President Truman. During the nine-day celebration, the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard will demonstrate their latest aircraft. For the city the celebration will hold a broader significance. A field capable of moving 1,000 flights a day comes close to the commercial air supremacy predicted by Fiorello H. La Guardia when he called for the "best damn airport in the world...