Word: passing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking about "table of contents." Why not cut it out? No intelligent person would pass up anything printed in TIME. It is one-two-five three legs ? down kick the it line out ? with serves me. no The purpose ? "table" has wastes time and space in your valuable...
...adequate appropriation, there are now only seven paid probation employed in only seven out of 90-odd district courts throughout the country. These seven paid probation officers have proven their worth many times over. They are appointed by the district judges under whom they but have to pass a special civil service examination. All of them are trained, experienced men in the work. Their duties are to investigate and report to the judges on offenders convicted but not yet sentenced by the court. They investigate the home conditions previous history and real character of offenders, especially first offenders, many...
...World Court Plan of Root." Seasoned Correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert took occasion to remark: "Mr. Hoover is not the kind of executive who turns over problems of his administration to subordinates." If these disrespectful remarks "got the Sec retary's goat"* he made no sign, allowed his announcement to pass as a declaration that one of Herbert Hoover's policies would be to put the U. S. into the World Court...
After a 45-minute chat, Mr. MacDonald sped from M. Briand's office to the Gare de Lyons. Before his train chuffed out he talked to French correspondents with unwonted bonhommie. "I couldn't pass through Paris without seeing M. Briand, messieurs!" cried Pere MacDonald while Daughter Ishbel beamed. "Say simply that two old friends have met. The visit was purely personal. My old friend 'happens' -I place the emphasis on 'happens'-to be Prime Minister of France...
...Angeles, 6,118 mi. in 75½ hrs. Celebration banquets and drinks at Tokyo gave Commander Hugo Eckener indigestion all the way over the sea. Because storms were ahead of them, most of the 60 passengers revised their wills. The dirigible rode out the storms comfortably. She tried to pass over Seattle. But winds made that excursion impracticable. To San Francisco she went directly, sidling through the Golden Gate on a cross wind near sunset; then to Los Angeles where she hovered until dawn. The remaining leg of her globe-trot, to Lakehurst, N. J., seemed commonplace after...