Word: slid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last autumn his broker advised him to buy some common shares of Hiram Walker, Inc. To Mr. Dyer's delight, the stock went up to 93⅞. He held on. Then the shares slid down to 66. Not until then did Mr. Dyer learn, he says, that Hiram Walker is a Canadian whiskey stock. His shock and grief at losing his money were exceeded only by his vexation at learning he had become involved in a liquor business. He sold his stock at a loss and, last week, wrote a letter of protest to the New York Curb Association...
...investigators fed healthy students and hospital patients roast beef, hamburger (Liberty) steak, beefsteaks, stewed beef, boiled corned beef, dried beef and bologna sausage. They fed pork and lamb, fish, chicken and guinea-hen, eggs and milk, toast gruel, oatmeal, rolls, potatoes, vegetables. And immediately after each meal, 'they slid a well lubricated yard of stomach tubing down each test case's gullet. By lowering the free end of the tubing they siphoned out a teaspoonful or so of the case's stomach contents and every few minutes they were able to study the progress of digestion...
...themselves down rather hopelessly into nine leather chairs around a table at the State Department. One was a Secretary of State with two assistants. One was a Secretary of War with one assistant. One was a Secretary of the Navy with two assistants. Into the ninth chair slid the slight frame of Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium and his country's most inveterate limitation-of-arms conferee...
Promptly at the appointed time His Majesty, Queen Alexandrine, and Prince Knud boarded their train. Promptly the train left. It rolled smoothly across France to Paris, from Paris to Berlin, Berlin to Warnemunde, on the Baltic; and at Warnemunde slid on the ferry that was to carry the train across an arm of the sea to Denmark. Six hours more, and they would be in Copenhagen. Practically nothing more could happen, unless the royal car should slip off the ferry into the sea. This very nearly had occurred on a previous occasion and worried trainmen roped and chained the train...
...pack of angry wolves. White outraced them all, but Yale's captain, Howe, was after him and after 60 yards of White's dash, Howe, in a final desperate jump, tackled the Tiger on the five-yard line and the terrific impact sent them both into the mud. White slid over the goal line on his face...