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Word: passe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against-poverty" budget. That was the budget that pitted the House of Commons against the House of Lords in a two-year struggle for power-a struggle which ended only after King George V, by threatening to pack the House of Lords with new peers, forced them to pass the Parliament Act which established the supremacy of Commons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: These Fierce Increases | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Princeton freshmen donned their black dinks (skullcaps) and black ties, stepped into the gutter to let upperclassmen pass, went to the President's Reception to dance with 250 debutantes. University of Pennsylvania's freshmen dined together for the-first time in a new commons, afterwards-paraded to Benjamin Franklin's statue in front of Weightman Hall, then to a rally on Franklin Field. At Harvard the big news was that Cambridge University's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards (The Meaning of Meaning) would set sail from England this week to be a visiting lecturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unique Burden | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...losers showed drive and spectacular offense unusual for a Yardling team at the start of the season. They started the scoring when Don McNicol, a sterling halfback, found Bill Lyle with a pass in the first quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exeter Downs Yardlings, 20-14 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Harvard led at the half, 7 to 0. The offense weakened then, however, mainly because of poor blocking and pass receiving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exeter Downs Yardlings, 20-14 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Kirkland scored first near the end of the first quarter, when Jerry Hall intercepted a Bunny pass and carried the ball to the one yard line. Earl Foster plunged over for the point but the Deacons failed to convert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Snatch 2-0 Win From Lowell; Kirkland Overcomes Bunny Team 12-0 | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

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