Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drink until the combatants appear. The duelists are dressed and armed in an adjoining room in the following fashion: All the body is protected with thick leather plastrons, and heavy gauntlets cover the hands and arms. Their eyes and nose are protected by gauze goggles so that no slip of the sword can injure them. The forehead, chin and cheeks are left exposed. The dueling weapon is somewhat like a rapier, but longer and flatter and quite dull with the exception of three inches at the point. This part of the sword is shaped like a razor...
...when, inevitably, one morning in each week, the only meats provided are those ever welcome delicacies, liver and bacon and sausage, some who do not relish such dishes must either breakfast on bread and butter and sweet potatoes, or resort to the convenient, but for some expensive, order slip. If the writer did not know that others besides himself were incommoded by this rather unhappy combination, he would have let the matter pass without comment. Cannot the directors or others in authority see that a change is made...
...blue-book be reserved for him. Then, on the morning of each examination, the society shall see that a number of blue books equal to the number of members in the course be placed in the examination rooms. Each student then by simply showing his card or a slip to some one in charge can get his book, which he has previously paid for. This plan may not be feasible, but is merely offered as a suggestion. We hope that the society will take some measures of this kind in time for the mid-years...
...them from defeat. Their tackling was perfect, and the activity showed by the rushers in getting down on the ball called for much applause from the crowd. Things were looking rather dubious for Harvard, but the team did not relax in the slightest, and when Peace made his only slip-up, just eight minutes before the close, Ayers threw himself on the ball and secured it for Harvard. Both sides lined out, and Kendall receiving the ball from the quarter-back carried it directly in front of the poles. Appleton snapped the ball to Hammond who carried it forward five...
...hard to comprehend" says the Clipper, speaking of the crowds that always stand outside the fence at Harvard, "why the different athletic associations allow so much money to slip from their hands, which could be expended upon the grounds and for expenses. It would be an easy matter for them to combine, and if Jarvis field cannot be fenced in, inclose Holmes field. A covered grand-stand is almost a neccessity, and the benefit to be derived from such a measure, both pecuniarily and in the increased interest that would result, is inestimable. As matters now stand, fully half...