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Word: pass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of you asked for reprints of the story to pass along to friends, associates, students, and others who might have missed it or "ought to read it." We made reprints available to anyone who wanted them, and offered them to others we thought would be interested. To date, the response has been overwhelming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Stranded in Manhattan after missing the last commuter train to suburban White Plains, one Elmer Patrick Gargan turned to relatives for help. To by-pass telephone-struck domestic exchanges, he called his aunt in Eire over the less-snarled overseas circuit, asked her to relay a message home. The call went through in jig time: Manhattan to Eire to White Plains. Cost: $12 for three minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...York's tabloid Daily News headlined: POX VACCINE . . . MAY SIDETRACK CUPID. The story: because vaccination sometimes causes a false positive Wassermann, vaccinated couples, required by state .aw to pass the Wassermann test before getting a marriage license, would have to delay their weddings until their vaccinations wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Smallpox Scare | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...plight, one of the loneliest frontiers of modern science-jet propulsion-has found an accurate metaphor. They are commissioned (but at their own risk) to cross the supersonic thresholds of the mind-the point at which the familiar sound-lengths of human life dissolve into inhuman silence. If they pass the barrier of dissolution, they may investigate in uncompetitive privacy the mysteries inaudible to the other minds. If they can recross the sonic sill, alive and sane, they may report what they have experienced to men who, never having known the experience, will never quite understand the report. Franz Kafka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tragic Sense of Life | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...proposal which did pass put the HLU as an organization behind the SDA principles but, in effect, allowed individual members to dissent and still remain in the HLU although disagreeing with the views of the majority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Votes Down Making Members Join Up with SDA | 4/25/1947 | See Source »

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