Word: passingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weighing 38 Ibs. Almost every morning for 4½ years, Keeper Eddie Robinson hitched Bushman to a 75-ft. rope and took him out for a romp on the monkey-house lawn. Man and beast wrestled, ran races, played football. Bushman learned how to heave a neat underhand pass, run with the ball, dodge tacklers. He was always gentle and obedient...
Every day, on their way to the Wannsee for bathing or boating, U.S. correspondents in Berlin pass a huge (3,500 inmates) D.P. camp. Last week, a TIME correspondent went through the camp gates and found Moische, a man with a will to live, and the kind of courage and enterprise that is needed by a war-wrecked world...
...hitherto unchecked surge of near-panie that has of late been seeing the mildest New Deal voter as Communist goblin, must inevitable be slowed by a principle of limits. The field of free inquiry, then, must by its nature oppose a mentality which presumes to pass on a man's right to an education in accordance with its whims about his "company." Plainly, the danger of the unchallenged witch hunt is that it can quite conceivably begin defining as ineligible Communist soreheads all students it considers in any way "difficult"--from pacifists to students who support a larger allotment...
Farrington appealed to the House in the name of "fair play" to pass his bill...
...centuries the Church of England has been tied, in one way or another, to the British state. The King, as titular head of the Church, still nominally appoints bishops and deans; Parliament must pass on the smallest change in the Book of Common Prayer; ecclesiastical court cases may be appealed to civil courts. Such a state of affairs was once natural enough. But many a modern Englishman now asks: is it suitable in a modern socialist state...