Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book was originally scheduled for distribution in May, but the dead-line crept by as belated copy failed to appear Confusion as to the status of veterans in the class also delayed production...
...tightest contest of the evening was between Crimson Captain Chuck Hoelzer and Milt Brier of the visitors in the 200 breaststroke, as the two battled it out all the way to the last ten yards before Brier crept ahead to win by two strokes...
...ahead, road crews strengthened bridges and culverts. The trailer crept over them carefully, while a vibration meter-connected with a microphone inside the case-reported each tremor of the mirror. But the driver needed no admonition. Like everyone else in the cavalcade, he knew that man's latest bright hope of understanding the universe was riding behind his truck...
...layer of "old soil." Above them lay many, feet of wind-deposited material (loess), the result of great dust storms associated with the last (Mankato) glacial advance, 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Apparently man reached Nebraska early enough to feel the effect of ice when it last crept toward his hunting grounds...
...Salzburg Seminar, the Council's great break into the realm of tangible accomplishment, a subtle development of leadership-consciousness has crept into the planning for the future. Although the Council has always held national prestige if only because of its name, today it enjoys international repute born of its hold step last summer...