Word: passing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced that the Italian government will seek permission from the Turkish government for the destroyers to pass the fortifications of the Dardanelles on their way to Roumania.* Experts opined that the submarines can slip past in any case...
...permanent peace rests with Sears Ripley, a devoted, sensitive widower, who brings it to pass by being not only patient and understanding but sufficiently muscular to carry her up to bed when, heavy with their first child, she is on the point of wishing she were a mooncalf again instead of a daughter and mother of her persistent species...
...like soldiers." The usual procedure during these halts was for the gendarmes to point their rifles at the driver-candidate while he slowly edged his car forward, the other two candidates meanwhile shouting at and arguing with the gendarmes, who eventually grounded their rifles and allowed the car to pass...
When another, Dr. J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Texas, a stanch American, cried, "we want Rockefeller to keep his bloody money," the Bible Unionists applauded. Yet in the larger convention the vote was cast and for the next twelvemonth Mr. Rockefeller and the other modernists may pass their way before the contemning eyes of the fundamentalists...
Unevenness is the most marked characteristic of this last Lampoon of the year: some things are extraordinarily good, some will pass, and many should never have been sent to the typesetter. One can almost hear the editorial sigh which issued from the sanctum when the last correction had been made and the comfortable realization dawned that three months would clapse before another convulsion had to be gone through with...