Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such that, while supporting the Yogi, the bar could still be caused by vibration, to slide intermittently down the pole. To illustrate this process, take a round stick and a flat stick with a hole in one end the size of the cross-section of the round stick; slip the hole of the flat stick over the round stick, and attach a weight to the other end of the flat stick. The round stick, held vertically, will then support the flat stick and its weight horizontally from its top, yet jiggling the weight will cause the flat stick, still horizontal...
...either in business or politics, one minute in which to think. Disraeli and Gladstone could have gone away on a long holiday and no one would have taken the slightest notice." Actually these great Victorian Prime Ministers had no such official country residence to which they could slip away as have their 20th Century successors...
Striking proof that TIME'S advertising and news staffs are well-isolated from each other is furnished by the bad slip under Business, TIME, June 15, p. 66. The E. Ingraham Co. does not manufacture Ingersoll watches. Instead, it is a competitor. Your advertising department well knows that Ingersolls are the property of Ingersoll-Waterbury Co. From shortly before the turn of the century until the early 20's the Ingersoll name was owned by Robert H. Ingersoll and brother. Robert Ingersoll, kin of but not the atheist, introduced the first clock watch, the Ingersoll "that made...
...uniform, went to work. Posing as a visitor from another crew, he would board warships at the San Pedro and San Diego bases. With the disarming air of an ambitious country boy he would then ask eager questions about gunnery data, technical innovations, maneuvers. He frequently managed to slip off by himself, filch code books, signal books, photographs, blueprints, plans, maps, models. He made friends easily, often took gunners and technicians out on parties. What he learned found its way to Toshio Miyazaki, who returned regular payments from his large account in San Francisco's Yokohama Specie Bank...
...years since then scudding about the world in small sailboats. A veteran of one transatlantic, two Fastnet, four Bermuda races, he is an accepted authority on small-boat sailing, the author of severa topnotch nautical books. Last week, as he stood on Brilliant's deck watching victory slip from his grasp, there was published in Manhattan another top-notch Loomis book, Ocean Racing,* the first thoroughgoing history of this hazardous sport of rich...