I've heard that baldness is passed to a male child from his mother's side of the family.

Following the death of Alexander the Great in 331 B.

, control of Egypt passed to Ptolemy, whose successors ruled until the Roman conquest of 31 B.

But it by no means follows, because the Palæotherium has much in common with the Horse, on the one hand, and with the Rhinoceros on the other, that it is the intermediate form through which Rhinoceroses have passed to become Horses, or vice versâ; on the contrary, any such supposition would certainly be erroneous.


Having surmounted a steep slope, we passed to some red and rotten rocks, which required care on the part of those in front to prevent the loose and slippery shingle from falling upon those behind.

But the circumstances of the time were unfavourable to their claims; by a tacit agreement, politically convenient, but quite in the teeth of the existing Law, the Crown silently passed to the King of Scots, the descendant of Henry’s elder sister Margaret.

The situation, now reported by everyone, and broken by Time , is that this past weekend the White House gave congressional and Department of Justice investigators videotapes of 44 different White House coffees in which potential or actual campaign contributors met with the president.

[252] Thence some passed to this country.

That one of these expeditions passed to the east, in the direction of south Russia, is clear from the occurrence of this type, in its most developed form, in the Koban graveyards.

From the word Paternoster-Kugel, when at a later time the demand came rather for beads for personal ornament or for export, the Germans passed to the ambiguous expression Perlen or Glas-Perlen.

But a piece of silver, passed to them, excites none.

But the other men who passed to and fro across their trench, although they no doubt liked their exposure as little as the Stonewalls did, climbed with apparent or assumed indifference over the parapet and hurried stooping across the open to the next trench, or walked back carefull In the beginning the word had been passed to set the sights at point blank and fire low, so that there was no need at any time to bother about altering ranges, and the men could devote the whole of their attention to rapid loading and firing.

With a vague idea that he would have managed the affair much better on his own, without these interfering directions of his movements, he began to wish he had never come across this officer, and from that passed to wondering whether he couldn’t give the officer the slip and finish off his program in his own way.

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