Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinctly unusual when a dark slip of a girl in her mid-twenties stood before the medical faculty of the Sorbonne, last week, for her degree as doctor of science. She read a thesis alleged by those who heard it to have been thoroughly able and predictive of a distinguished scientific career. The degree was swiftly conferred. Female doctors of science are by no means common at the Sorbonne, but this particular one had elaborated upon an important discovery made by her mother. It was Mlle. Irene Curie, of Paris, continuing the radiological research of her mother, Mme. Curie, joint...
...rate, M. Clemenceau was so excited that he forgot to give the usual pourboire to the female attendant who conducted him to his front seat in the fauteuils. Next morning he remembered this slip and, summoning his chauffeur, bade him take a ten-franc bill to the usher woman...
...charged on the April term bill, according to an announcement made last night by the Senior class executive committee. Bursar Endicott has agreed to make the necessary charges. Each man taking out a policy and wishing to charge the first premium will simply have to sign a release slip for the proper sum against his term bill through the Bursar's office...
...With a slip, slap, slop...
...Paul D. Cravath, millionaire Manhattan lawyer, came a telegram. He peered in amazement through his pincenez at the extraordinary request set forth on the yellow slip. It came from the students of Fisk University (for Negroes), Nashville, Tenn. They besought Lawyer Cravath,† who is chairman of the Fisk Board of Trustees, to investigate "the situation...