Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Rushworth Jellicoe was born in 1859, joined the British Navy 13 years later. Sir John Jellicoe commanded the British Grand Fleet (1914-1916), and while personally worshiped by British tars, was considered by some experts to have let the German fleet slip through his fingers at the battle of Jutland (1916). Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa became Admiral of the Fleet in 1919. In 1920 he was sent as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief to New Zealand, returning in 1924, to be created, in 1925 Viscount Brocas of Southampton and Earl Jellicoe...
...with the full sanction of the law to his credit bookmaker, will, for the sake of avoiding a shortening of the odds equal to a shilling in the pound, wander around in the districts of some manufacturing town looking for a mysterious individual into whose hands he might surreptitiously slip half a crown...
...Sold to Mr. Ringling," said an art dealer in a low tone to an assistant, who wrote "John Ringling" on a slip of paper and attached the slip to a painting by Emile van Marcke, showing masses of sturdy cattle in a meadow. Again and again through the afternoon on the second day of the sale of the paintings and furnishings of the Astor residence, 840 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, the name of Mr. Ringling was repeated. More than a hundred Astor pictures were sold in two days (for a total of $35,295) and John Ringling bought a great many...
...permitting the season to slip by without having read, or planned to read, books designated by the best current criticism...
...infielders until before the Bowdoin game with an average of .970. The only miscue chalked up to Ullman was on a hard hit ball back of second which nearly went for a safe blow. His successor, Chase played a brilliant defensive game against Bowdoin, handling four chances without a slip, and heads the infielders at present with a clean slate. The fielding of Ullman and Chase gives the second sackers a heavy lead in defensive averages and show the center of the diamond as the strongest point in the Crimson defense...