Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a Frenchman is sick he keeps close indoors, with all his windows tight shut night & day. This shaggy old Foreign Minister Aristide Briand has done for more than a month. His bachelor bedroom is in the Foreign Office. He could slip down for the hour or two of work a day permitted by his doctors without breathing a single sniff of possibly deadly fresh air. In this manner the greatest living Frenchman fought bronchitis and won, emerged in palpably good health last week to face his enemies as the Chamber of Deputies convened for its short, pre-Christmas session...
...come about. Characteristic mistakes in news texts are transposition ("amy" for "may," "ear" for "era") and substitution ("bottle" for "battle," "love" for "live"). Printing of "slays" for "slaps" once resulted in a $50,000 libel suit against the Telegram (TIME, June 9). Such errors are caused by a finger-slip of the linotype operator, whose typesetting machine has a lower-case keyboard arranged in this manner...
...first two vertical lines, reading downward "etaoin shrdlu," often appear in print. Having felt himself make a slip, the linotypist will run his finger down those two lines to make an obviously pied line of type which the proof staff will surely, but does not always, catch...
...work given in Harvard College at the Summer School, not only must the abbreviated courses be sufficiently intensive to cover the complete field, but the atmosphere of teacher's training courses injected by the graduate students must be reduced to a minimum. The undergraduate must not be allowed to slip through with a high grade and no real accomplishment, nor should he be stifled by specialized graduate work. The Summer School is the best at hand to aid the dropped student, but every effort must be made to have courses there conform to the standards set by the college courses...
...Library has shown extreme inefficiency in its handling of the first two House libraries. Given fourteen months to order, catalogue, and place on the shelves the books for Dunster and Lowell, Widener not only failed to fulfill its contract, but has also let six weeks of the College year slip by without finishing the work...