Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hill" ivy plant, grown from a slip of the original vine which grew at Charles Dickens' home at Gad's Hill Place, Rochester, England, has been added to the Dickens exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. This plant was loaned by Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ridgeway of the Dickens Fellowship of Boston in commemoration of Dickens birthday which is today...
Even so, however, Dr. Herbert Evans, of the University of California, gives us pause. We have attained our full growth, and we are fairly well satisfied, on the average, with our size. But if Dr. Evans can get unobserved to our collective dinner table and slip some of his new discovery into our soup, we shall become a nation of Goliaths Dr. Evans can quite literally make mountains out of molehills...
...What makes things go out of date? What was there at Memorial Hall twenty-five years ago (and more) which made it loved then and which holds it in the minds of men now grown to gray hair, which it lacks today? There are thousands, who would like to slip back the years, and go walking with the rest across the yard, and into Memorial. They would like to hear the clatter of the dishes, like to sniff the faint, elusive fragrance of cooking, like to see the dusky waiter come shuffling down the long aisle, miraculously balancing seven plates...
During the War, aviators were tested primarily as to the integrity of these organs and their function. It was learned, however, that when the aviators flew above the clouds and finally came out, they might find themselves flying partially on one side so that they slipped readily into what was known as a "wing slip," and fatal accidents resulted from such causes. In other words, when the aviator was unable to orient himself in relation to the horizon by use of the visual sense, he could not depend for maintaining his balance on the knowledge coming to his brain from...
...surprising," concluded Mr. Mahady "how men will try the same trick over and over again and hope to get away with it. Why, we had one fellow who tried to slip in two applications for the same book. He was caught and reprimanded by my assistant, but, nothing daunted he tried the same trick again four hours afterwards with...