Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studies in his second year at Goettingen he lists as Roman Law, Archacology, Ciccro's de Oratore, Greek syntax and meters, Greek and Latin Composition, Latin conversation, French, and Italian, Riding and dancing, he adds, are "pursued at odd intervals." Yet, he says, "All the students here who pass for diligent hear far more lecturing than I. Cogswell hears 8 courses daily." We see George Bancroft, fresh from college, sent by the Harvard Corporation for three years' study in Germany in order to become, as President Kirkland expressed it, "an accomplished philologian and biblical critic, able to expound and defend...
...page opinion, the New Deal judge told 19 protesting coal companies that it was perfectly legal for Congress to pass the Guffey Act imposing a penalty tax of 13½% on the value of their output unless they would submit to government regulation of wages and coal prices by the equivalent of what NRA called a Code Authority. In doing so he propounded a doctrine which differed not only from that of his predecessor but from that of the Supreme Court in the Schechter (NRA) case: Judge Hamilton: "The bituminous coal industry as now conducted affects interstate commerce and, this...
With 60 seconds to play. Halfback Bill Shakespeare arched a pass down the field. An official claimed Army interference, put the ball on the 2-yd. line. From there Notre Dame made a touchdown, tying the score at 6-to-6, left 80,000 gasping spectators feeling that luck had played again with the ''Fighting Irish." Pious Catholics credited the last-minute tie to the devotion of squad members who attended Friday morning mass in New Rochelle's Holy Family Church...
...time head of the Chemical Warfare Service, now an indignant critic of Washington's Board of Education and of School Superintendent Frank W. Ballou. Told that a study of Russia might turn children against Communism, he retorted, "Why not teach children about robbery, murder?", proposed that a committee pass on a long list of high school textbooks...
Providence, R. I., Nov. 22--After meeting both Yale and Harvard my opinion is that Yale should win by a close score because of superior backfield talent and an extraordinary forward pass game...