Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senior thesis was worth while. Their sole complaint has been that the extra work was an unfair burden to impose on only part of the Juniors busy with review for divisionals. And there is the further gain that under the proposed plan not even sine cum laude candidates can slip out of Harvard without at least once having faced a lengthy problem demanding originality of thought and clarity of expression...
...charged by the student--there will be no difference in procedure. The same old table cards will be used whenever the student sits down for a meal in his own House. If he has a friend from another House over for lunch, he will go through the same slip-signing process as he did last year. But if he has a guest, or buys cigarettes, or gets a sirloin steak and three extra grapefruits at supper, then he must use some of the five cent coupons in his ten dollar book...
...sirens wailing out their warning of a coming raid; if so all unnecessary lights are switched off and the shutters closed before finishing off the coffee. We have grown used to this preliminary warning and pay little attention to it... probably it is only a lost plane trying to slip back to Norway; doubtless it will be shot down over the East Coast; maybe it's a reconnaissance! Somebody looks out to see what the moon is like, returning with the information that the moon, a luminous threequarter disk, throws its light over the entire city, and that there...
...generations. Gradual steps towards diversification have been taken for years with only slight success. It took the tragedy of world war, of starving people, of men earning big wages producing machines of death to provide the long-sought agricultural opportunity, and Claude Wickard does not mean to let it slip...
...Ambassador Fernand de Brinon. He told the office of Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Darlan, which told the Vichy Gestapo, who made the arrests. In so doing they were joined by members of the Nazi Gestapo (the Vichy Gestapo, either by accident or design, has let many prisoners slip through its fingers). The arrests were made in the name of the "International Convention for Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism"-a legal aftermath of the 1934 assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseille. In this way it is said that scores of anti-Nazi German refugees and other Hitler...