Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than mere routine to a great many members of the class; even the election results may in some cases seem foreordained or even meaningless. But this "routine" organization is important. It is only necessary to hark back two years to recall one slip between the cup and the lip, due to bad management. Then the Juniors counting the returns were at fault. But a hitch at any point is enough to disrupt and discredit he whole system of Senior Elections. The dissension, the damaged feelings; the howls of protest of two years ago should be sufficient reminder to each...
...Pope he will make remains to be seen--it may be too much to hope for a Hildebrand--but it is easily possible that he will outshine the dying pontiff, whose best known accomplishment at his time seems to be the encyclical "Casti Connubil", which weightly discusses short skirts, lip rouge, and the like...
...schedule will include the University of Pennsylvania comes the realization that Harvard has in all earnestness climbed onto the Ivy League band-wagon. Every college named in this newest eastern league will meet Harvard teams during the next four years, with the single exception of Columbia. Not only by lip service but by the best example of all -- actual playing agreements, does Harvard signify her intention to do all in her power to further amateur football and non-professionalism in the college field...
...document, the film was withheld from release by Mr. Roosevelt until after Election Day lest it seem that he was exploiting his official home for campaign purposes. Sound-track was made in only a few scenes, used in none, and wise Press Secretary Steve Early warned his chief against lip readers in the audience. Against the White House background are portrayed in swift review the main events of the Roosevelt administration, down to and through this year's Election...
...continue his discussions of the New Deal in the same tone and temper. To Allentown's sober citizens he boomed: "I am tired of hearing this nonsense about a choice of the American people between liberty and security. . . . The present Administration has been for four years giving lip service to security and welfare, and today no life insurance policy is secure; no savings account is safe...