Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peru and Auburn said he had stolen guns from them, too. Police in Chicago said they had been fired on by Dillinger at night in Schiller Park the week after he escaped. In a St. Paul apartment house two Federal detectives had let two gunmen and a woman slip through their fingers under a machinegun barrage. They claimed that Dillinger was one of the men, that a picture of him as a sailor and some of his fingerprints were left in the apartment...
London, hating to see rich contracts slip between its fingers, debated whether it had been wise to cheer so loudly for the Lytton Report, blaming Japan directly for the invasion of Manchuria. Wrote the Times: ''Whatever may be thought of the origins of the new state, it is impossible not to admire Japanese grit and organizing capacity. . . . Countries which have trading interests in the Far East . . . must not delay too long in making up their minds how to reconcile their trading activities in Manchuria with the principle of non-recognition...
Even at Harvard some things end. Comptroller Endicott is not the first of the old guard to fade from the Harvard picture; he will not be the last. An officer modelled on the lines of an Endicott would slip with little grace into an underling's post beneath a new financial vice-president. It is fitting that the Comptroller should prefer oblivion to ignominy...
...made artificially thirsty, then, to increase their weight, given all the water they could drink just before being sold), had other tricks up his sleeve. One of them: "Old Daniel pulled out his proverbial red bandanna handkerchief to mop his brow before sitting down with some fellow speculators. A slip of paper bearing a 'point,' or tip, fell to the floor; a bystander put his foot on it. As Drew left, apparently not noticing the incident, the others pounced upon the piece of paper, which proved to be an order. They bought Erie stock in large quantities...
...Chancellor Dollfuss slip out of Vienna last week, and what were the consequences...