Word: passing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaker and Members of the House: . . Death will take its toll of service men and women if we do not pass legislation for their benefit. [Applause.] Death waits for no man or no woman. It does not even wait for Congress...
...case upon which this charge is based was decided nearly five years ago by a division in the Department of Justice regularly authorized to pass on claims of this character. As in many other matters of a like nature, I was not even called upon to review their decision; in fact, I never heard about the case until long after it had been disposed...
...such a state of affairs came to pass today we should say, "Ah, an eclipse." British astronomers have, according to despatches last week, determined that the only total solar eclipse visible from Ithaca, home of Ulysses, during the first quarter of the 12th Century B. C., occurred at 11:41 a.m. local mean time, April 16, 1177 B. C. From this deduction the Trojan War was dated 1197 to 1187 B. C.; Ulysses' wanderings...
...Freshmen voted two to one against the plan, and the Sophomores opposed it in the ratio of seven to five. But much of this opposition must be discounted, since the average Freshman and Sophomore does not know what a divisional examination is and is hardly qualified to pass judgment...
...familiarly called "Bert." He is rarely seen in public, almost never in the company of such famed rubber men as Harvey S. Firestone and Frank A. Seiberling (president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 1898-1920, of Seiberling Rubber Co. since 1920). Even his comings and goings pass unchronicled in the local press...