Word: slips
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University race crew "A" was never headed, although "B" was able to pull up even several times through momentary spurts. To R. Jenney '21, stroke of crew A, goes most of the credit for the race, which he never let slip out of his grasp for a minute...
...fifty years before." These words, written by President Lowell in answer to Senator Borah's attack on him of his lack of reverence for Washington's last official words, are irrefutable. Looking the facts in the face is what the whole world must do unless it desires to slip back into the dark ages. Although the present is built on doctrines and theories of the past, many of the latter are obsolete now. The whole organization of society has changed. New means of transportation has greatly decreased, whether we willed it or not, that isolation of this nation which Washington...
...these may be discounted. The loudness of their talk can only be equalled by the fewness of their numbers. How could a group of self-respecting nations, having fought a war against the impossible conditions then existing in the world have the moral weakness to allow themselves to slip back into the same old rut? And that, coupled with internal confusion and petty wars over boundary and trade disputes, is what the world would face if the treaty were rejected...
...payments since your discharge from the army, send in your back payments at once, before it is too late. Remember that you will surely want to be insured sooner or later, and do not let this opportunity which the Government is giving to every discharged soldier and sail or slip through your fingers. Full details concerning time and terms of conversion will be announced as soon as finally determined upon...
...champagne, but simply because bourgeoisie and Philistines are in mortal terror of his intellect. Money-grubbers and little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part of the show that he should be poor. Dress him in the fashion, slip a yellow-back into his pocket, clap him into a limousine, and, no matter how brilliant he may be, he is useless, he has lost his spell...