Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...technical mechanics of the aeroplane and took his tests in cross-country flying, taking off, landing. A few days ago in a de Haviland plane he took and successfully passed the final tests, including all the " acrobatic " maneuvers? loop, roll, tail spin, Immelmann turn, falling-leaf, spin, spiral side slip, forward slip in landing, etc. At a luncheon of the Army and Navy Club in Washington, General Patrick received the silver wings of a flying pilot?the only Major General who had ever attained that distinction...
...estimates that there are at least 5,000 smuggled Chinese in New York City alone, that it would cost the Government $1,000,000 to deport them, and that deportation would be of little advantage since at least 5,000 more Chinese are in Cuba awaiting an opportunity to slip into this country...
...alumnus may let all the intervening commencements slip by with hardly a thought for his perennially expectant Alma Mater. Not so the twentieth. The reasons are fairly obvious. At forty-one or forty-two years of age even a human dynamo feels strongly the temptation to pause for breath and take a look backward. He discovers then a strong curiosity concerning his forgotten classmates. How do they look after twenty years. How much have they got? What do they know? It may be assumed that he has attained by now to what he considers a respectable position in life. Hence...
...unfortunate that as soon as Uncle Sam and John Bull sit down together to smoke a quiet pipe of peace, one or the other always lets slip some inadvertent bit which blights their budding amity. Uncle Sam, with his bluff, outspoken manner, has been charged most frequently with this offense, but now there can be no doubt that John has been the offender. However happy Americans have felt over the settlement of the British debt question, they cannot but take umbrage now when London challenges New York's title to speed. Certainly nothing could teach them more nearly, and they...
...July 5, 1914: From the Austrian Red Book the author reproduces two diplomatic telegrams which clearly show that the ex-Kaiser was not wholly unconscious of the impending catastrophe since he advised Austria that she should not allow an opportunity, such as presented itself, to slip away. Then, says the author, " the fact remains that war was caused on that fifth day of July in 1914. And that very man, who, after the carnage, after millions of unfortunates have perished, after he hardly dares to look upon the accusing earth for fear of seeing a tomb rise up before...