Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a brilliant scheme will at once commend itself to the law-maker. Behind a barricade of sideburns, the "pro's" and the "con's" will be alike unrecognizable, and can slip by the watchers ere the latter can penetrate their disguises. It will, of course, be a trifle hard on the general public; many an old farmer on a sight-seeing tour will be mistaken for a legislator and questioned concerning the cotton-planter's trust or the Society for the Preservation of Indigent Africans...
...most dangerous threat. Twice he scored after long individual dashes through both the Crimson lines, and more than once he taxed Dole to the utmost. Donahue, the quick Pere Marquette goal tender, was largely responsible for the Crimson end of the score for Lee and Butman were able to slip through their defence several times and drive some futile but well aimed shots...
...table remote from that at which he has stated he was sitting, or has carried the book away from the Room in spite of his signed promise not to do so; in a few cases books have been deliberately stolen by signing a fictitious name on the charging slip. These and other similar tricks are easily invented by men without a sense of fair play, and they cannot be altogether prevented except by such elaborate precautions as would quite change the character of the Reading Room administration. They cannot be permitted, however, among men of honour, and I am giad...
...familiar as his name is at the bottom of a printed slip, not many of those who have stood in line at the office on the Delta have had the privilege of speaking to him personally. Some few there are, however, who--getting the worst of a dispute with one of the clerks have stood upon their rights and appealed to Caesar. And these have invariably found the Bursar to be a very different person from what they had imagined, and discovered that the man who was spending five millions a year for the University was not without consideration...
...report comes from the library that the book thieves are still plying their trade. They have in no way been discouraged by the exhortations to mend their ways which have been directed at them. It is not surprising that they have not; a man who will forge a desk slip or practice any other of the deceptions resorted to is not likely to be much impressed by any appeal to his sense of duty...