Word: passing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first glamor of newspaper work, when he learns the mechanical mysteries of how half-tones are made and how the presses rhythmically roll out their printed pages, but his vanity is tickled by the thrill of seeing his own handiwork impressed on thousands of papers. His photographer's pass permits him to brush elbows with his professional brethren of the "Fourth Estate" at intercollegiate baseball games and track meets...
...other departments of instruction, there attaches to the examination the character of a qualifying test. Passage of this test admits one to the privilege of specialization, and implies a comprehension of a field of study so hastily covered that understanding deeper than that needed for a clever student to pass an examination is a doubtful quantity...
...been proved practicable by the number of ticket applications received each fall at the Athletic Association. It is to be regretted that the present opportunity for carrying out this scheme has been allowed to slip; for at the present rate of deterioration little more than a decade will pass before the concrete Stadium itself will be unfit for service...
...Leading U. S. correspondents have since revealed that at the time they and the Italian press were compelled to suppress material details of the trial? especially all indications that Signor Mus solini might himself have ordered the crime. After the trial successful Signor Farinacci was allowed to pass into discreet eclipse. Soon his post as Secretary General of the Fascist Party was taken by the present incumbent, harsh but not fanatical Augusto Turati. People were allowed to forget Castor Oil & Bludgeon Man Farinacci. His re-emergence last week on the very pinnacle of power, at the right hand...
Finished that book? Pass it over. Lemme see what you wrote this time. You're a funny one, Joe. You just write in the right hand columns. You been missing hundreds of pages since your Freshman year. Me? Why, I bet I write twice as much in margins on left hand pages. I don't know why. I eat and bat righty...