Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several hundred miles away, re-accredited them. First they were scooped on the news of the arrival of U.S. troops in Australia when the Chicago Sun's Edward Angly, who arrived on an earlier convoy, went to a neighboring town and filed a dispatch which the censor let slip past...
Bits of the picture are hilarious, deft touches that could come only from Lubitsch's direction. But they often slip over into the intensely dramatic and prevent the consistency of tone present in such Lubitsch successes as "Ninotchka." For instance, take this case: a Gestapo agent, speaking of Jack Benny's acting, says, "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland." The basic plot is a natural for Benny and Miss Lombard, who are cast as Josef and Maria Tura, the leading actor and actress of Poland. He is an actor who revels in Hamlet...
...essential above all that this plan not be allowed to slip into the taken-for-granted rut. If its value be proven, it should be retained. But if the test of its practical success or failure show it to have been merely a patriotic but unworkable gesture, and a hasty move to keep apace of the band-wagon of national enthusiasm, it should be rejected. The confusion amid which compulsory athletics is being whipped into shape must not be allowed to befog a later fair appraisal...
...teams in Alaska have gone with the wind of a slip stream. Nearly everything nowadays travels by airmail and groceries, milk, medicine, machinery. But last week travel in Alaska threatened to slow down to a Malemute's pace again. The Civil Aeronautics Administration ordered every airline in the Territory to place every field under 24-hour guard in case of sabotage or invasion...
...present, the number of Freshmen who may be accommodated in each House at each meal will be limited to 10. No Freshman will be admitted to a House dining hall without a transfer charge slip which may be obtained in advance at the Union within the following hours daily: 8:45-9:30 o'clock; 1:30-2 o'clock; 5:15-5:30 o'clock 7-7:30 o'clock...