Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under these conditions March and April football practice appears perfectly legitimate; it is not any attempt to ballyhoo or overemphasize the sport. Yet it should be conducted with the full realization that it has certain bounds; for nothing would be easier than to slip back into a formally organized and much over-emphasized activity...
...rushed to obey orders and thus shut Jehol's luckless Chinese defenders out of China. Commandeering motor cars, trucks, carts and 10,000 Peiping rickshaws & coolies, the Young Marshal's troops sped 50 mi. to the Wall. No fool, War Lord Tang did not himself try to slip in from Jehol, but 242 motor trucks loaded with his "treasures" reached the Wall. Promptly the treasures vanished...
...London. The crisis that brings them all into violent collision comes when, at one of Lady Grayston's weekends, Bessie catches a glimpse of Lady Grayston and the Duchess's gigolo misbehaving in a teahouse. Presently, artfully prompted by Lady Grayston, Author Maugham's people slip back into their old poses, forget that anything has happened...
Three months later Ludington began to slip. It was getting stiff competition from the mail-subsidized Eastern Air Transport, which had begun a passenger service over the same route. A reorganization shook out Vice Presidents Vidal and Paul Collins, who had built the line with the Ludingtons' backing; shook in as president James M. Eaton, formerly of Pan American...
Concomitant with these disturbances has been a period of tragically futile talk by the League of Nations, and a fantastically mounting burden of armaments for all nations. With painful irony new battleships slip off the ways while statesmen meet to discuss and disagree on navy reductions. What hope for peace while a revengeful Germany, a belligerent Italy, a suspicious France, an aggressive Japan, and a hated Russia prepare for conflict? The world outlook is certainly dark Yet, gloomy as it is, we cannot evade it by such ostrich-like attitudes as President Hoover's. There is no better prelude...