Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Next day I tried again, and was rather successful, as will be seen shortly. My interest in the book began to lag, but I was bound to get it. After having handed in my slip in due form, I waited for five, ten, fifteen minutes, and yet no book came. The official behind the desk eyed me more and more suspiciously, and, growing rather uneasy under his paralyzing gaze, I asked, meekly enough, how long I should have to wait: "Oh, is that what you want? Why, you cannot have the book before to-morrow at noon." I fell back...
...Conference Committee will be elected on Friday, Oct. 16, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Sever 10. Each senior voting will write the names of five members of '86 on a slip of paper and sign his own name. Each junior voting will write the names of four members of '87, and each sophomore the names of three members of '88. Unsigned ballots will not be counted. There will be a separate ballot-box for each class bearing the class number...
...Harvard wins in the game with Brown this afternoon the championship pennant will float on Holmes Field next year. We have good reason to feel confident as to the result, but let there be no relaxation on the nine's part. "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," says the old proverb, and Harvard at different times has had the truth of the maxim sorely impressed upon her. The championship undoubtedly hangs upon this game, for if defeated by the weakest club in the inter-collegiate league, how can we expect to overcome our strongest opponents...
...both at a low ebb, prepares himself for the battle. That is, he makes his "cribs." An old-fashioned "crib" is made by taking a strip of tough, thin paper, five or six inches in length and one in width, fastening at each end a match, writing the slip full of memoranda likely to prove useful, rolling up each end until the two cylinders meet, and then by a light elastic fastening them together. This crib is held in the palm of the hand and worked by the thumb, the thin paper being easily worked from one roll...
...back with well directed long throws, while their Princeton opponents thwacked ineffectually at their arms and sticks. The Harvard homes had several good chances to score, as they also got the ball away from the Princeton men, but they failed to make goals, either shooting wide or making some slip which allowed the other side to get back the ball. After twenty-nine minutes had been played out the two Harvard defence men hesitated at a critical moment, and Gamble, the Princeton captain rushed in, secured the ball and tipped it to Blakemore, who shot it between the flags...