Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed the examinations admitting him to the ultimate institution? And even then, how shall he know whether it be because of his college career, or in spite of it? We cannot help feeling, as time goes on, that the influence and the significance of college are beginning to slip a bit. Things are too ill-defined...
...once for all. And is it not better so? All the squirming and writhing of the politicians could mean but one thing; that, though they knew the voters' choice, they did not wish to obey it; that if holes were not already there, through which the machine men might slip, they would dig them. Their chance is gone now, and the part is able to present to the public, without further delay, Nominee Hoover...
...weighty women last year sought out those seven stores. Saleswomen, robust like themselves, and no chits, give them courteous attention. They dare try on dresses without the fear of splitting sleeve-seams or waistbands. They can slip into dresses without standing on tiptoe to draw their hips narrower...
...case that the paper seemed like an old car going up hill. In regard to Nicaragua the World has thundered on Thursdays and whispered on Monday mornings. Again and again the paper has managed to get a perfect full-nelson on some public problem only to let its opponent slip away because its fingers were too feeble. It does not seem to me that the paper possesses either courage or tenacity...
...baseball girls", God bless them. Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Wheaton, Goucher send them, and they jump daintily from the top step of the car into waiting arms. They danced far into this morning; yet their eyes will be sparkling with bright glee when the maid awakens them and they slip into silk for luncheon at the Princeton clubs. The ladies, not the players, dominate the day. Tiny rose faces, cheering madly, and yet not quite knowing Sweezy from Stevens. Cheer not overloud, mesdames, for one has much dancing yet to do. Tonight along the Street of Strange Sights (Broadway) the Crimson...