Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American football team of Presidents I shall put Coolidge in as quarterback. He is the weight and size for a quarterback. He gets in every play as no other President I have ever seen does. He follows the ball like one possessed. He handles it with fingers that never slip. His generalship is never caught asleep. He eats, drinks, lives the game. In the whole list of Presidents there isn't another quarter like...
...immediate predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, passed away at the Capital. At 11:20 of a quiet Sunday morning Admiral Grayson, his physician, emerged from the door of the ex-President's S Street home and faced the silent crowd which had gathered in the street. From a yellow slip of paper in his hand he read the official bulletin announcing that Mr. Wilson's death had taken place five minutes earlier. Many years before he entered the Presidency he had suffered a thrombosis, a blood clot in the artery of one leg. While still President of Princeton University...
...first provision would be excluded (1) those men who having failed their examinations in June meet the requirements by concentrated cramming during the summer; (2) those who show a lack of interest by neglecting to present themselves at the proper time; (3) that small number who are able to slip in unnoticed in the general rush and confusion always evident at the College Office during late September. (Incidentally, by reducing this confusion, the discontinuing of fall examinations would allow University Hall to start the College year under less of a handicap...
...pulls him in, Harry hooks his right to the body. Well, let me tell Wills, that he'd better not try that trick on me. That style of fighting is my dish. When he puts that left around my neck to pull me in, I'll slip right around his back and do some pulling myself. Then watch me smash my left into the stomach...
...offensive if the University is to come away victorious, for such rough-and-tumble fracases as that which led to Harvard's lone tally two days ago cannot be relied on to produce enough scores to outweigh the points which the slightly speedier Toronto forwards are almost certain to slip across...