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Word: passingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel that we are being educated for living, not in order to pass an exam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Last week Bonduel's retired farmers and small merchants turned out in record numbers to pass judgment on Hot Rod's reform campaign, then ambled back to their beer and games of schmere and sheepshead. The count: 118 for John Froelich, 48 for Hot Rod. Said 51-year-old John as he began another term: "I guess I showed that young whippersnapper." Hot Rod's grandfather added: "I didn't vote for Hot Rod [but] he'll be all right after a while. He's like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Hot Rod's Revolt | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Here are a couple of the blessings Mr. Toomey's bill could provide, if passed: No one could advocate any peaceable change in either the state or federal constitutions without losing his right to vote and hold office. If a future legislature felt in a particularly conservative mood, it could pass a law under this amendment preventing anybody to the left of--Mr. Toomey, for example--from voting or holding office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hysteria Plus | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

There is still hope that congress will pass a resolution introduced last month by Senator Flathers, Republican from Vermont. This would provide for the release of at least three more transports for student travel. At present the resolution is awaiting a hearing before the Marine and Fisheries Committee of the Senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Boats Ease European Junkets | 4/13/1949 | See Source »

...theater. It concerns Professor Allen Carr (Wesley Addy), a brilliant young atomic scientist who feels that the only hope for peace is for the U.S. to share its atomic secrets with the U.S.S.R. Then, reasons the professor, war would prove annihilating for both sides. Carr has begun to pass information along to Communist agents when a U.S. Naval Intelligence squad catches him redhanded. Instead of arresting him as a traitor, they successfully appeal to him as a patriot. He helps them, at the cost of his life, to land a key Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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