Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin Government last week appointed Mr. McNeill (now a well known economist and a retired editor of the St. James Gazette) to the post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Since Winston Churchill is Chancellor of the Exchequer, it becomes the duty of "Wild Irish McNeill" to slip quietly in and out of the Churchillian sanctum bearing facts and figures...
...fellows may have been apprehensive because they were excited. Each of them had found on his desk that morning a slim slip: "Mr. Giulio Gatti-Casazzaf Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, Company, will see the musical reporters on Monday afternoon at four o'clock in his office...
...more game for Washington would finish it. Washington was over anxious. With a two run lead to begin with, the Senator allowed the Pittsburghers to slip past them, score three runs. The game score stood...
...aerial attack, when used throughout the game showed a distinct step up from the slip-shod method used during the earlier games of the season...
...year or two years slip by so quickly that unless some outside organization arranges and pushes the work along, students who would like to become acquainted with men of common interests and who realize the value of discussion gatherings, are unlikely ever to establish these contacts. Discussion groups mean a great deal to graduate students and result in everyone involved making better progress," said Olson in commenting upon the questionnaire...