Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard T. Gill, lecturer in Economics, also supported the Fleming proposal, because the present system "tends to cheapen the CLGS degree." He urged that a deadline for dropping the thesis be reinstituted so that a candidate for honors in field is not able to slip dishonorably into CLGS...
...slip-ups are small, but bothersome. Altogether too many lines are stumbled over: last night the lighting flickered and went out at one point, and actors tripped twice on the intricate set. But these are small errors, and the conception of this play is so good it suffers little from little mistakes. The only serious mistake last night was that Sanders Theatre was rather empty. It should not be tonight and tomorrow night...
...square, is covered closely with 1,240 barely visible rectangles. And when examined with a microscope, each tiny rectangle spreads out into a page of the Bible. Both the Old and New Testament - all 773,746 words of the King James Version - are all clearly recorded on that one slip of plastic. The job took only four hours...
Tammy is a genie out of another bottle. From a mouth carved by a razor she lets slip songs and dialogue as if they were secret vices. Other people speak; Tammy makes animal noises. She looks like a love goddess playfully absent without leave from the moon...
...strakes, like steps. In high waves, the strakes and deep V keep the hull level, nose down so that it knifes through the waves, while flat-sterned powerboats tend to leap off the crest of each swell and crash heavily into the trough. The result, according to Bertram: "less slip, more control"-and 40% higher speeds...