Word: passing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regularity and precision. Both receive the same grade. That grade influences the mid-year or final mark in varying degrees but it is safe to say that seldom is it quite ignored. Thus one who has received his start by a streak of luck, luck which rarely comes to pass in the examinations held at later periods of the college year, is saved in the end not by the pace which he has maintained but by the apparent agility with which he has greeted the opening gun. The opposite may happen equally well and a man for whom the basic...
...presidential approval of the plan of the Child Welfare Committee of America to better the lot of 18,000 abandoned and mostly illegitimate children of U. S. fathers and Filipino mothers, together with uncountable thousands of all-native orphans. President Coolidge said he thought the Philippine Legislature could pass a bill similar to the "Mother's aid" bill passed by the Massachusetts Senate when he was a Massachusetts Senator...
...machine of Eli Whitney† was the cotton gin. Slender teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder, like the pins on a Swiss music box, pulled cotton through a series of narrow slots. Cotton seed could not pass through the slots; cotton fibres were effectively cleaned. Where a slave picked clean one pound of lint a day, Eli Whitney's gin cleaned 50 pounds...
Late in the first period Captain B. H. Ticknor '31 received a short pass from T. W. Gilligan '31 and crossed the Green goal line for a touchdown. The Dark mouth Freshmen retaliated in the second quarter after an 80-yard march down the field, Sutton, a substitute fullback, carrying the ball across to even the score...
...Senior class football team defeated the Juniors 2 to 0 in a hard-fought and evenly matched game yesterday afternoon, winning the championship and the right to meet the Yale class team at New Haven on November 11. The single score came in the last quarter when a bad pass from center on the 15 yard line was recovered by R.E. Garrity '29 behind his own goal line...