Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brown-A medium left-hand bowler with a considerable break; a steady bat and an excellent fielder at short slip. Belongs to the Germantown club...
Some inquiring mind has put a slip among the "Notes and Queries," in the Library, asking: "How many men at Harvard are in favor of prohibition? If you don't know, guess." There are several answers, denoting a varied process of guesswork: 96 per cent.; 2 per cent.; 47 per cent.; 53 per cent.; 90 per cent.; 10 per cent.; 66 2-3 per cent.; 33 1-3 per cent.; 0 per cent.; 1-5 per cent, and 1-100 per cent...
...circular was accompanied by a separate slip, upon which was the following...
...then delivered a short sermon, taking as his text, "Seek and Ye Shall Find." A portion of the speaker's remarks were substantially as follows: "Many men come near certain moral truths in the course of their lives, but because they are not in search of these truths they slip by unheeded. It is of inestimable importance we learn early in life to develop our faculties for seeking only what is good. But it is necessary to devote our youth and old age to this search if we wish to find truth in its symmetry, beauty and grandeur. The Lord...
...departure in the game that has been advised for many years, and predicted as an effective placing of the men. That it was a success is not at all certain. To make the arrangement a success the two backs must be players practically sure of never making a slip of any kind, and this was not true of them this year...