Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergraduates to evaluate. The second is that the individual departments have been more willing to accept this pressure than they have been to stand firm now for some concrete planning that would actually put strength into the tutorial system. And lastly, the issue of tutorial has been allowed to slip from view: a highly dangerous development if students are to grow aware of what they are losing...
...illustrate this point Mr. Trask indicated in the crowded prop room an ugly, box-like structure constructed of mattresses and a few sticks of wood which he said could be made to resemble nearly any couch or sofa called for merely by the skillful draping over it of a slip cover...
...slip of the pen made invitingly easy by the Buchmanites, who also call themselves the Oxford Group. The real Oxford Movement took place in the mid-19th Century in the Church of England, is associated with John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, John Keble and Edward Pusey, whose Tracts for the Times urged return to Catholic teachings and practices...
Down Commodities. There was more cheer in commodity prices. The slip which had started two weeks ago turned into a slide...
Opening Parliament last week, Sweden's King Gustav, 88, was guilty of a slip of the tongue which caused the Soviet Minister's heart to miss a beat. Said the King (of Sweden's membership in the United Nations): "We have recently joined the United States. It is the fervent wish of our entire people that this new union will successfully complete its mission to affirm international collaboration and to assure peace...