Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy to slip, a mercury-coated cent into the fare-box,--I spent one afternoon in the Physics laboratory preparing in this way some pennies I had found by tapping a slot machine,--and once past the guard the whole rotten metropolitan life of Boston is only eight minutes away...
...announced yesterday by the Freshman track management that any members of the class of 1926 or of the track squad, who wish to sit in the reserved section for the Yale meet on Saturday may exchange, at the H. A. A. or at James Smith C-31, the slip in their H. A. A. season ticket for the special card which is necessary for admittance to the restricted area in the Stadium for the meet. Men who do not hold season tickets may purchase the special entrance forms at these places for 50 cents each
Count Carlo Calvi di Bergolo, husband of Princess Yolanda: "I arrived in Rome by train for my wedding and found reporters, photographers and a royal automobile waiting for me at the station. Wearing civilian clothes, I gave them all the slip and took a taxicab to the palace...
Highlands, New Jersey, was once a sleepy fishing village the Gopher it is the center of the rum landing industry. The shipyards are crowded, Prairie of the Jersey marshes. Now new boats slip down the ways every day, and ship builders are at such a premium that skippers and their crews have to do their own repairing. Under cover of darkness or fog, dozens of swift motorboats ply between Highlands and the Bahama rum fleet anchored off the coast...
...before the student panoramic glimpses of the different fields of knowledge, and help him to find the one in which his work will give him the greatest satisfaction. This the elective system makes possible; but in itself it is not sufficient. Many men come to college pre-determined; others slip into the first groove that they find convenient, and forget that there are any others until they discover, after it is too late to change, that their work has become mere drudgery...