Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furrow could be plowed? The important thing was the productivity of the furrow and the cost of cutting it. Years of study taught him how to step up productivity, cut down cost. This month, on a backbreaking schedule, he and six helpers set out to give 150 field demonstrations, pass on their knowledge to farmers...
...veto will force the Congress to act quickly. With only ten working days left before the agency expires on June 30, Presidential courage will force the boys on the Hill to pass a simple resolution extending OPA without crippling change. The Solons obviously do not dare let OPA die completely; rent controls, for example, are not so much as touched in either House or Senate bill. The time for haggling is growing short, and a ringing Presidential veto message will throw the blame and the responsibility exactly where they belong-in the spacious laps of a captious Congress...
...apartment was a station in the subcellar underground. Gisele, a thin blonde in her 30s, was a first-rank Dutch artist, known for her stained-glass window designs. During the occupation she spent half her days on bread lines to feed the men she was hiding. To help them pass the terrible time, she also found pens, ink and paper...
With the issue squarely up to them, many departments admitted that they could not find enough capable tutors to handle the over-increasing enrolments--an answer that was difficult to by-pass. But a favorable turn was forthcoming toward the end of the running fight: the newly-formed department of Social Relations agreed after experiencing pressure from the Council to offer "modified" tutorial instead of a substitute for it, as had originally been planned, and their budget was passed with that provision...
From This Day Forward, at the University. Intelligent enough to pass muster even by a Harvard...