Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other day the White House sent to the War Department an OK for the reassignment of General G. B. Pillsbury as assistant chief of engineers. Like MacArthur. Pillsbury already had served four years on this job, was reassigned to serve four more. But attached to the OK was a slip of paper on which was scrawled: "There are to be no further reassignments of general officers beyond the regular four-year period." Below the scrawl were the initials...
...just add up those points and if your figuring is correct you will note that Old Jawn seems pretty well set for 32 points. Just a slip here and a break there and who but Eddie Farrell and his tutees will take the turkey." --By Time...
...fifth day police traced telephone calls to a Los Angeles apartment, arrested one James Kirk and a woman who said she was his wife. Kirk sent them to a house in La Crescenta, few miles from the Arcadia estate. There they seized two other suspects, let one slip away. But they found and held fast to unharmed William F. Gettle...
Taking drastic steps to accomplish their purpose, the Anti-NSL League kidnapped Alan K. Philbrick '35 yesterday afternoon only to have him slip out of their hands a few hours later...
...recurrence of the disease will be taken this year by the World's Fair Health Commission which includes Dr. Fishbein.-ED. Death Pictures Sirs: When the bloody corpse of Stavisky was among the photographs in TIME Jan. 29] I was surprised, and disgusted, but felt that such a slip could not happen again. Having subscribed-without a break-to TIME since March 1923, I have had ample opportunity to notice that TIME does not indulge in Tabloid photographs nor Gum-Chewers-Sheetlet reporting. Since the number of April 9 displaying on p. 19 another even bloodier corpse I feel...