Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football wall. Some of them would have a great fall by Thanksgiving Day. All might be tumbled, even Southern California which had kept a solid perch from early 1931 until last month when little Oregon State jostled it with a scoreless tie. Michigan came perilously close to slipping from the top of the Big Ten, where it has been for three years. That it did not slip was largely due to a crack halfback named Herman Everhardus and to Willis Ward, a rangy Negro end. It was Ward who, after hard-fighting Illinois had marched to a touchdown...
...fuller efficiency. There is one and only one advantage in such a body, and that is that the responsibility to improve Stillman and make its facilities more adequate is centered in one particular group. It is too easy for regular staff members of the Infirmary to let things slip along in the same groove, not only from mere inertia, but because they are too close to the organization itself and interested more in running it than in picking it to pieces. The tendency, only too apparent in the past, to let antiquated equipment outrun its usefulness, is illustrative of this...
...practical about the whole of undergraduate life. Last spring the senior governing body, Palaeopitus, expressed the prevailing dislike of a phlegmatic campus by reviving Freshman Rules and similar kid stuff, which had formerly been tossed aside with raccoon coats in the days when "College Humor" was starting to slip. Revival was all right, but a lot of Seniors who knew the score, distrusted Palaeopitus's typical means of reviving. Hence "Steeplejack", a spearhead of no deceptive, mature revival of interest. The campus is sick of some of the labels applied in order to clarify our ideas but the need...
Editors of the News failed to find out who was responsible for the slip, which ran through one edition...
...subordinates. They had not been told that everybody would leave by the southern entrance, and so could not accuse anyone of deliberate connivance. But they were inclined to feel that the president, whether advised by Major Apted or not, had taken unfair advantage of the opportunity to slip out unnoticed. One of them, indeed, was heard to remark," Who does he think he is Jesse James...