Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trifling matter, but to those who regard TIME as authoritative it should be none the less important. On p. 18 of your issue of Dec. 14 you speak of the Lusitania as having been sunk on "May 17, 1915." Just a printer's slip, no doubt, for the date should...
...grizzled Aristide may have reflected that by appointing M. Loucheur his Finance Minister he has firmly drawn to himself the 45 odd votes Loucheur and his friends are supposed to control in the Chamber. When Loucheur vanished, his votes remained with Briand, It might now be possible to slip these votes as ready political coin into the pocket of a more popular financier. There were those who said last week that the astute Briand winked as he summoned his old friend, the "safe and sane," self-made Senator Paul Doumer, to be his Finance Minister...
...London Foreign Minister Chamberlain let slip a reminiscence or two concerning the famed steamboat sail on Lago Maggiore which was taken during the Locarno Conference by the chief plenipotentiaries (TIME, Oct. 19, INTERNATIONAL...
...more empty of adventure or hope than the future years of his career, daily to be occupied in matching his wits with the flat modiocrity of successive generations of adolescent C-students, and patiently waiting till the death of some better man, hardy and long-lived, allows him to slip into a larger pair of old shoes...
...special feature of the "M" boats, of which the M-1 was the first, consists in the fact that they are the only submarines which are equipped with a regular 12-inch dreadnaught gun. Thus a fleet of such "monitors" might slip into an enemy port unobserved, possibly during the absence of the enemy fleet, and deliver a bombardment of dreadnaught calibre at close range before effective measures could be taken against them...