Word: passing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police and towns people is understandable, if only for economic differences. However, I suspect that this feeling in a policeman is indicative of some psychic disturbance which, harmful enough in itself, could be extended to other prejudices and obsession. Needless to say, a policeman is daily called upon to pass judgment many more times than the robed figure behind the bench. A mentally-ill police officer can be a dangerous thing. Periodical psychiatric checkups should be required for all public officials, including policemen and congressmen...
Armed guards had thrown a tight cordon around Peiping's Wagon Lits Hotel, where a six-man Nationalist peace delegation sipped tea and sampled the Communist temper. Not even the hostelry's Italian barber Martelliti was allowed to pass the barricade. Not even the delegation's leader, soft-talking General Chang Chih-chung, could soothe the Reds' truculence...
...usual, by Muroc's scientists and airplane designers. Already the records have had a profound effect on high-speed modern aircraft. When production aircraft fly faster than sound, as scientists are sure they will one day, their pilots will thank the X-1, the first airplane to pass through the transonic zone and bring back information...
...Congress, federal fair-trade laws also were under attack. Brooklyn's Democratic Congressman Donald L. O'Toole introduced a bill to repeal the Miller-Tydings Act of 1937, which permits states to pass price-fixing laws that might otherwise violate the federal antitrust...
...armed services got under way yesterday among Senators looking for some way to cut the house-approved $16,000,000,000 military appropriation. Senator Harry Byrd (D-Va.) told a reporter he hopes to see a new unification bill shoved through the Senate before that body is called to pass on military appropriations...