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Word: slipping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect. We believe that the improvement of the News in the last few weeks has been directly caused by the staff's sudden realization that the student body must be convinced of the News' worthiness. And we believe that if another year of subsidization is voted, the News will slip back into its former uninspired ways...

Author: By Cynthia Baker, | Title: Compulsory News: Pro, Con | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

Probably the chief reason for this is the increased difficulty among the Faculty and Graduate School of conducting a person-to-person canvass. Six thousand letters have been sent out to faculty members and nonresident graduate students, but something about it makes an impersonal letter far too easy to slip quietly into the nearest wastebasket. Admittedly some of these letters went out late, and admittedly graduate students are on the average poorer per capita than undergraduates. But for the full professors and associate professors, who can certainly afford a reasonable contribution, any excuse is indeed small. The drive includes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One-Sided Campaign | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...responsible for the blunder, Vandenberg refused to say. He insisted that "there was nothing at all sinister about it." But there could be no question that it was Vandenberg's laxity which let it slip into print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Who's in Charge Here? | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Witch Sinkanda shows up, Timothy is literally led to Hell. By day she's just one of shiftless Mr. Farr's many daughters, but at night she's up to all sorts of fearful business. She can slip in through a keyhole, hex the unwary and fly through the night air. When Timothy throws his Bible in the fireplace and burns the house down while two of its occupants are asleep, it looks like an accident, but Sinkanda knows better. She and Tim have an affair that is both earthy and unearthly. Together they fly to Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bewitched Judges | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...proposed that the few low quality infants which slip through the birth blockade be forced, at least, to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Supports Birth Control as Peace Insurance | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

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