Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the new two week limit on books announced last June, the library has been encouraging renewal of books, which may be done by postcard or telephone. In the filling system when a book is renewed, another slip is stapled onto the original card to nullify the first notch, and a new notch is put in it for the new day on which it falls...
...Hailwood delayed the proceedings while he read a statement to the effect that he disapproved of "gambling," therefore would not draw a lot himself, would let a proxy do it for him. His proxy then stepped up, drew out of the hat box for Parson Hailwood the slip marked "Elected...
Doth loll about with just her slip...
...York City, catching the fringe of winds which registered 120 m. p. h. in some gusts, were flooded and stalled. Lights went out for an hour, subways halted, when the Hellgate powerhouse was flooded by storm tide. The Staten Island ferryboat Knickerbocker was caught by the wind in her slip, jammed into an iron bumper rail at an angle that drove her 200 passengers near to panic before two tugs managed to work her loose...
...bones and muscles, destruction of cartilage sheathing the ends of the bones, and fusion of joint bones. The hypertrophic form, which usually occurs in older people as a result of wear & tear, is less severe, less painful. The ends of the bones grow thicker and their cartilage coverings slip off and work their way around joint cavities (joint mice), leaving the raw edges of the joint-bones to scrape together...