Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second Dawes Committee, which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan, at Paris (TIME, Feb. 18), appointed a subcommittee of two, last week, presently enlarged it to five, and then let the days slip past, while Chairman of the Subcommittee and Chief of the British Delegation Sir Josiah Stamp struggled vainly to whip into shape an agenda or program outlining how the main committee should go about its business...
...hotel is the only one admitted. The suite is that of John Pierpont Morgan. (A secretary permits reporters to enter the hall, and Mr. Morgan emerges from his bedroom. The correspondents are excited, abashed and somewhat breathless, for no one had supposed that Mr. Morgan was going to slip off to such an unheard of old hotel, and he has been located only after much frantic telephoning...
After that debate, Evolution seemed to slip quietly out of the public press and mind. But actually fundamentalists and anti-evolutionists were banding together, distributing propaganda. In California blossomed the Bryan Bible League; in Philadelphia, the World's Christian Fundamentals Association. Elsewhere in the U. S. started the American Anti-False Science League, the Fundamentalist League, the Anti-Evolution League. The names BRYAN and DARWIN continued to ring in crowded halls, though afte-the Scopes climax the newspapers paid small attention. Mississippi and Arkansas followed the lead of Tennessee, passed laws against the teaching of Evolution in State-supported schools...
...gazed wide-eyed-motionless- voiceless-and after a moment of tense waiting the other said: 'Then-I am!' " It was Carla who jumped. She and Paul were almost drowned, were sucked into a river cave, crawled out, but not before Carla was hurt by a rubble-heap slip. Claire went off with a stoop-shouldered sculptor. But not until the two women had confabulated on their emotions...
...report of last year, the plan for the erection of a new structure has been proved practicable by the number of ticket applications received each fall at the Athletic Association. It is to be regretted that the present opportunity for carrying out this scheme has been allowed to slip; for at the present rate of deterioration little more than a decade will pass before the concrete Stadium itself will be unfit for service...