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Word: slipperiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later the man who has been called the slipperiest eel in Germany was slipped out of the dying Reich. From Paris he was reportedly headed for internment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bigwigs Bagged | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...minor, you continue, (at least, I do) to be haunted by its deep-driven intensity and the sheer melodic beauty which contains it. Perhaps another way of looking at it would be to say that if the music is really beautiful (and here again we are dealing with the slipperiest terminology)--if, I say, there is real beauty in the notes, you may be sure they are the product of genuine emotion. If there is not, you may be equally sure of the emotional sterility behind them. (But if you are really interested in all this, you will forget...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

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