Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tongue-slip on the part of a high authority on tuberculosis control, who said "Louisville" when he meant "Nashville," TIME'S apologies...
...During the Spanish-American War, volunteers in blue and khaki slapPed mosquitoes, trained impatiently at Fort Taylor. During the World War, Key West again gained military prominence when a $2,500,000 submarine base was begun there. It was never commissioned, and not long after, Key West began to slip...
...Official Residence. Last week Premier Okada went enthusiastically back to squatting. He called back to their portfolios the outstanding members of the Saito Cabinet except famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi in whose department the bribe scandal had occurred. By no means in disgrace, venerable Mr. Takahashi was able to slip in as the new Finance Minister his devoted henchman Mr. Sadanobu Fujii...
...Cook County Hospital will also get the vaccine which is composed of weak but live descendants of tubercle bacilli. When the bacilli are carefully prepared according to the precise method of Leon Charles Albert Calmette and Charles Guerin, B. C. G. vaccine apparently does prevent tuberculosis. But many a slip is possible and disaster may ensue, as Lubeck, Germany discovered four years ago when 57 infants died after vaccination with defective B. C. G. cultures (TIME...
...more to the needs of the advanced and brilliant student and less and less to the lacks and gaps in the mind of the "normal, average man"--in other words to make the university, not a group of men who are able to pay for an education and to slip by minimum entrance requirements, but a community of students and scholar-teachers eager for learning and understanding. --Daily Princetonian...