Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argument was that ... no insect which passes through the larva, nymph and imago cycle of life has ever . . . been able to pass on any experience to its progeny. All that such insects know is known absolutely perfectly by an instinct which must be the result of creation...
...Senate had actually increased the sums recommended by the House. A small, bipartisan bloc of economy-minded Senators had fought steadily for 5%-to-10% cuts, but just as steadily a Senate majority had overruled them. The discouraged economizers tried the only course left to them. They tried to pass the buck back to the President...
Acheson's conversion was too late to save the House $100 million proposal. But MAP has still to pass the Senate. There
...Lanier likes guitar tunes with mournful titles such as I Pass the Graveyard at Midnight and There's a Chill on the Hill Tonight. Says Max: "If I could hear my music while I'm pitching, the bastards would never get a loud foul...
Lieut. Colonel F. Spencer Chapman never got his diaries back, but what had happened to him in the Malay jungles was etched in his memory. His book, The Jungle Is Neutral, has been greeted in England with the kind of praise that British reviewers pass out once in a blue moon -"magnificent," "enthralling," "terrific." It is indeed one of the finest personal accounts to come out of World...