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Word: slips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last few minutes were taken up in a questioning of Lieutenant Murray and Sergeant Stokes about Ferguson's charge slip, which said that no cuts or bruises were visible and that he had been arrested by Officers Stokes and Toomey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIAL WITNESSES BOLSTER DEFENCE | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

...Scotchman, and started with them on a rice-selling expedition. They chartered a sampan, and after no few experiences, managed to buy ten sacks of the valuable grain from a schooner at Macao. They sailed back to Hongkong, to find the port closed. They were caught while trying to slip in after dark, and had to durop their cargo to avoid a fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEYS TO TELL OF HIS RACE AROUND GLOBE | 2/9/1927 | See Source »

...Heflin: "The Senator from Maryland. He made me think of Mexico, and that was a slip of the tongue, but sometimes a slip of the tongue is in the right direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Wrangle | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Wishing only she'd slip and fall...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/25/1927 | See Source »

Whether the republic will finally give way violently to dictatorship as has happened in so many other European countries; whether it will gradually slip back under the guidance of conservative Presidents, or become consolidated in its present form it is impossible to predict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 1/11/1927 | See Source »

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