The 40-day countdown to last month's standardized tests was full of timed comprehension exercises, including a musical-chairs style game where students roamed the room, reading a passage at each station and coloring in a bubble answer sheet along the way.
A passage at the beginning of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" keeps echoing in my mind.
A passage at the start of the Origin's chapter on classification, Chapter 13, confirms this.
Then, it passes under The Standard hotel, and through a passage at 14th Street.
So disappointing in the mile Lockinge Stakes, Declaration Of War made an emphatic Group One breakthrough over that distance when overcoming a troubled passage at Royal Ascot under a dashing ride from Joseph O'Brien.
Makeup mistakes and experimentation are a significant rite of passage, at a time when creativity and self-expression are very important, yet self-confidence can be low, especially in relation to skin.
The Polish-born pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski said little, sometimes merely pointing and smiling at a passage in a score.
The Iraqi Kurds on board are believed to have paid a total of about £2m for their passage at an average of £2,000 a head.
Most participants had been smoking since their teenage years and many described smoking initiation as a rite of passage at an age when they were unaware of the health risks of smoking.
In Paul Bew's seminal work, "Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006," he includes a passage from a magazine article written at the height of the famine: "In a sort of hutch there lay four skeletal children... death-stricken.
