Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important difference was that while Capt. von Gronau had to slip furtively westward from Iceland in 1930 without even confiding his destination to his wife or crew, for fear his government would forbid the venture, he now has government sponsorship for surveying the intercontinental route...
...quarters. Wall Street felt glad to be rid of it, for noxious fumes have belched from its ungainly chimney. To complete the moving, a billion dollars worth of gold and $70,000,000 in silver will have to be transported to the new building at South Street and Old Slip. The date and method of the moving were kept tomb-secret, although officials publicly estimated that it would take from 13 to 26 days. Also secret is the nature of the construction of the new building's great vaults, although it is known that the chambers will...
...march, who was selected last week as the B. E. F.'s commander-in-chief. Tall, lean, sunburned, Waters first saw service on the Mexican border. Then he went overseas as a sergeant for nearly two years with the 146th Field Artillery. Mustered out, he married a blonde slip of a girl from Valparaiso, Ind., took her to Oregon where he worked as superintendent of a canning factory, had a house of his own, a car, two little daughters. Eighteen months ago he lost his job. His small savings melted. He led the B. E. F.'s first...
...mornings the knives sometimes tremble in his hands. He smokes too many cigarettes. This again is not heroic. People are sick and people are poor and other people take care of them. This, too, is stinking and sweaty. And yet in the town shopmen call him "Doc" and slip an extra carton of cigarettes in his box of provisions. In mud time when the Ford slips into a pot hole, a team is hitched on to the front "ax" and the farmer forgets to ask for his three dollars. It really is not very understandable...
Following its brilliant display of inspired baseball in winning over Columbia on Saturday, the Crimson nine yesterday staged as discouraging a comedown as four fatal errors can produce, and went down to a 4 to 3 defeat before a slightly better Brown team. Brown took advantage of every slip by the Crimson in the second game of a series which the Cambridge outfit was expected to carry off like the first...