made passable
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While Whiz Bang has never been barred from the mails, occasional issues have been held up until they were made passable; and there are sporadic brushes with local authorities over its sale.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fibres of grass were torn and drawn into fine threads, and these made passable oakum, which was thrust into the seams between the layers of bark until they were thoroughly stopped.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
The General Court ordered the bridge and way to be made, "passable for loaden horse," and allowed twenty pounds to Sudbury, "so it be donne w'thin a twelve monthe."
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various
The following day the snow-ploughs and the rollers were busy, and the centre of the highway was made passable for some miles further north.
From The Land of the Long Night by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
After the earth has been deposited it must be worked over to secure the correct cross section and be made passable for vehicles.
From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg
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