Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Criminal had intended to publish this morning a little incident which occurred between an official of Radcliffe College and an official of Harvard College. It seems that , owing to some confusion which arose regarding the attendance of Radcliffe Graduate students in Harvard courses, every one must present a pink slip to the instructor. It occurred to your Criminal, however, that the incident might be misunderstood; consequently he turns to that never failing source of undergraduate humour, whimsy, and downright Crime, The Widner stacks...
...Finance Minister Kung, he threatened to prosecute for treason any Chinese who did not send his white metal to the Government's banks. If that threat works it means, among other things, that the Japanese forces now predominant in North China will see all their silver slip through their fingers to Nanking. One way to stop such a slip was to scare the daylights out of China by another "Shanghai Incident." In Peiping, where Japanese last week forced the installation of puppet Mayor Chin Teh-chuan, Japanese military authorities gave an inkling of what the Araki Brothers...
...long table seven carefree inmates awaited their soup. A respected economist and senior tutor seated himself in the vacant eighth place and also waited. But while the undergraduates were patient, he was clearly uneasy. He looked at his watch and groomed his pencil for singing the yellow slip in record time. But no yellow slip appeared. His face contorted with agony as the minutes passed. Finally, seeing an idle waitress across the room, he snatched up his napkin and rushed to her table. Over his shoulder he explained to his startled companious, "I'm going to see 'Top Hat' tonight...
...which keeps most of Harlem's Negroes poor. Most players can bet only a few pennies at a time but total receipts run annually into the millions. On a table across which the Flegenheimer mob was shot in Newark, police found sheaves of financial figures, one adding machine slip totaling...
...course this is Mr. Charles M Puffer. Charles M. Puffer. What do you want?" Mr. Puff at this point allowed his voice to slip slightly beyond control and those who were gathered around the other end rolled in glee as the thunderous tones rolled through all of Hollis...