Word: passing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never known the proverbial "dog-catcher" of politics, but I will wager that he was never elected to his high office because of his ability to catch dogs. I have known many senators and mighty few of them were elected because of their ability to pass on treaties, or the tariff, or taxation, or naval and military affairs. It is even doubtful whether presidents are elected on the basis of their understanding of the intricate and often non-sensational problems they are called on to solve. Not that many senators, representatives and presidents have no knowledge of these governmental...
...some 15 years before, punched a certain police commissioner's nose. There are many similar instances, too many to detail here. They all point to the fact that the issue on which a man is elected to public office is frequently one on which he will never pass when he takes office and that if he has the really desirable qualities for his office he has them fortuitously and does not promulgate them to his constituents...
That is the keynote, hub, axle, dynamo, driving force, central idea of Rotary?SERVICE?and Rotarians have sent emissaries all over the world to pass the word along and plant more Rotary Clubs, each composed of 50 to 200 representatives of separate professions and "lines...
...study for himself, without external stimuli. The amount of outside work that a student does in the course should be a matter left for him to decide for himself, depending on his interest in the subject. He should theoretically be able to absorb enough from the lectures to pass. His should gradually approach the graduate student's attitude. Until then --we need snap courses. Columbia Spectator...
Whiskey Test. To the University of Cincinnati came 300 volunteers who drank good whiskey and then let their alcoholized breaths pass through a solution of 50% sulphuric acid containing a trace (1/3%) of potassium dichromate. This solution is ordinarily reddish yellow; alcohol vapor makes it change to a bluish green. The more whiskey the Cincinnati bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars...