Word: passing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hershey issued two orders to State draft directors, with instructions to pass them along to local boards. They were...
There is a less frenetic opposition to federal controls: some educators fear that administrative standards will be the opening wedge in a campaign of standardization all along the line that will gradually stiffen U. S. education into one unshakable pattern. They pass around the story of the French Minister of Education who proudly declared that at any given moment he could tell what page of what text-book each child in the country was reading. American education needs to be supported by national funds, these educators admit, but diversity and the chance to experiment are too important to lose...
Orange. Underdog Texas-usually pass-conscious-outplayed Georgia, principally in the line, and marched overland to a 41-28 victory...
...gentlemen . . . were desirous of having a ball but could find none of the feemale sex in a humour for it." New York (pop. 11,000) pleased him better, especially the conversation and the women, but in Albany the local custom of asking strangers to kiss the women "might almost pass for a pennance, for the generality of the women here, both old and young, are remarkably ugly...
...deferred, a student must pass the General Classification Test with a score of 110 or higher and would have to rank in the top half of the freshman class, the top two thirds of the sophomore class, or the top three quarters of the junior class...