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Word: passing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Played before a large crowd under overcast skies, the game quickly developed into a runaway. The Tigers seized upon every varsity mistake, and turned every pass into a goal. They demonstrated amply why they were Ivy League champions last year and are rated a Class A lacrosse team, while the Crimson is Class B. Princeton handled the ball brilliantly around the goal making shot after shot until finally scoring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Squad Vanquished, 20-3 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Eisenhower voiced gratification for the vote by which the House sustained his veto of a bill that would have taken from Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson the power to pass on rural electrification and telephone loans...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: President of Panama Orders Out Troops Against Cuban Invaders; West Agrees on Geneva Tactics | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

Pusey added that there have been numerous demands that the University not accept funds under the Act, but explained that Harvard has not done so because it "applauds the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the National Defense Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Advises Kennedy To Fight Loyalty Oath | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

...year, Munoz succeeded in convincing the United States Congress that an elected governor would better serve the interests both of the Puerto Ricans and the residents of the United States. In 1952 he added the final step in the creation of this new entity by convincing the Congress to pass the new Constitution of Puerto Rico, which made the island an "estado libre asociado." Puerto Ricans now had virtual home rule, protection of the United States, and continued exemption from the burden of federal taxes...

Author: By Daniel A. Pollack, | Title: Quiet Revolutionary | 4/29/1959 | See Source »

...Bosley Crowther of the Times is his guide. If Bosley says it's trash, he may easily pass it up. Or if he has to use it (and he admits he has to use a lot of pure crocks), he'll play it in the Sunday-to-Tuesday slot...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Let Them Eat Popcorn | 4/28/1959 | See Source »

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