Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Navy proudly calls itself the silent service, but last week First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander let slip a significant phrase: "The strain upon our destroyer fleet has been very great." Silent facts bore out this admission. Many destroyers have been at sea an average of over 25 days a month. One cruised 111 days with only 19 days in port. Another traveled 52,248 miles - more than twice the earth's circumference - in nine months...
...piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into the bloodcurdling tritone, it sounds that way to Londoners...
...Sandwiches" of 'Messerschmitt fighter-bombers usually came over first between layers of Messerschmitt fighters, to draw off R. A. F.'s fighter strength. Then fol lowed bomber squadrons, trying to slip past secondary defenses to strike at Lon don or to surprise R. A. F. bases, aircraft factories, Army camps. With their blows at military objectives they mingled many a savage shot below the belt, at civilian targets and morale. They experimented with "herringbone" formations, Indian file or chain formations, darting single attacks, converging attacks and their opposite, in which big formations dispersed in all directions...
...Your Slip is Showing...
Radcliffe, Harvard's little sister, is the traditional butt of Harvard humor. The typical Radcliffeite is pictured as a bony female wearing flat-heeled shoes, and horn-rimmed glasses, and carrying half a dozen textbooks; usually her slip is showing. But the vote of the class of 1940 seemed to belie that conception--or else last year's Seniors liked them that way. Radcliffe is conveniently close, the girls are generally more intelligent than at other colleges, and they don't mind riding subways or sitting in the balcony. At the beginning of the year the Radcliffe Houses hold...