Word: passing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From there on, Czechoslovakia will probably follow the Communist pattern established in Poland for controlling foreign publications. Officially, there is Government censorship of all foreign publications, but Government policy allows almost all publications to pass the censor so that freedom of the press can be claimed. The real censorship is exercised by the state distributing agency, which can fail to distribute any publication it dislikes...
...voyages of Columbus had a very different effect. Men discovered, to their great annoyance, that Columbus' "spice island" was a vast continent which shut them off from the rich Indies; and they tried again & again to by-pass America and Russia by finding some northwest or northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...
...yesterday afternoon, balloting on the issues raised at the meeting has been extended to span vacation week. Final votes will be gathered during the week of April 5, and official results will be released before April 10. A majority of the entire college must vote for any proposition to pass...
...appendectomy (TIME, March 15), Argentina's Strong Man left the hospital to vote for a Peronista Congress. He got what he wanted. Though ballot-counting was slow, particularly in the provinces, his party had captured more than two-thirds of the Congress seats. That will be enough to pass the constitutional amendment which will let President Perón run for a second term...
...Ludlum Steel Corp. had already found it necessary to boost the price of one finished product (carbon steel strip) by $10 a ton. "It would appear likely," observed the Justice Department, "that other purchasers of semi-finished steel products will find it necessary to do [the same], namely, to pass on these increases to the consumers...