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Word: passing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...busy today, and the elms that covered what was once the road to the west bordered by country houses now wave over whirring traffic. The house at the head of Longfellow Park peeps from behind its screen of shrubbery as it did seventy years ago, and those who pass the Craigie House turn and look, or do not turn and pass, knowing vaguely that a poet once lived there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PASSAGE | 12/8/1928 | See Source »

...benefit of those who never can pass up the inside steps of Widener without a silent query intelligent discussion of this picture should be encouraged. The shadow of its creator is so strong as to have obscured whatever adverse criticism has been whispered by anyone worthy of being heard and the extant words in praise of the piece are made unconvincing by halting qualification. If the painting is as bad as Mr. Pachs says it is, there is nothing to be gained by holding it up as a master work of a great painter. Undoubtedly the most conspicuous work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTER OR MASTER-PIECE | 12/4/1928 | See Source »

...Sigma Alpha Mu scored the first tally when William Raffel 1L intercepted a pass and ran for a touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGMA ALPHA MU WINS TOUCH FOOTBALL CROWN | 12/4/1928 | See Source »

Barker scored again after a long series of plays carrying the 1932 team down the greater part of the field. The winning touchdown of the game was made when S. A. Hessel 1G.B. picked a long diagonal pass from Solomon Smith '31, and rushed across the goal line, leaving the fraternity men one touchdown in the lead at the end of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGMA ALPHA MU WINS TOUCH FOOTBALL CROWN | 12/4/1928 | See Source »

...acute as the ticker problem was the telephone congestion. Most stock market orders pass through the "Hanover" exchange. On Friday, harried operators handled between 85,000 and 100,000 calls an hour. Telephone officials planned to divide the burden between lower Manhattan's seven other exchanges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Adjectives Squandered | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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