Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty Freshmen have been invited to participate in a return engagement of the step test for physical efficiency that they failed to pass six weeks ago, Normand W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Training, announced yesterday...
Fradd said that normally after the six-week period of compulsory calisthenics or physical activity, 85 percent of the men who failed originally pass the five-minute, up-and-down stepping grind. He is interested in making a comparison of the usual results of the summer's six-week period where the men could choose any athletic medium they desired...
...Kansas' dour, white-haired Republican Congressman Edward Rees seized the moment to bring up his bill for establishment of a five-man federal board of review, which would pass on the loyalty of all employees and applicants. The Rees bill's board would act as prosecutor, judge and jury; furthermore, those accused would be denied the right to confront their accusers and would have no appeal to the courts if found guilty. To many people, these measures seemed to infringe civil rights. But all attempts to modify the bill failed; the House jammed it through...
Wanton Waste. The politics-minded committee called the wartime work a "wanton waste of the taxpayers' money." It cited "flagrant" overpayments to contractors, and a wasteful detour in Nicaragua so that the highway might pass property owned by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. It condemned the poor coordination between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Public Roads Administration. In some places in Guatemala, a junketing subcommittee had found, the road was so rough that pigs wore shoes to protect their trotters...
...shall march through Mt. Zion, With my angelic band; I shall pass through the city With my fan in my hand...