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Word: slipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also high scoring for the local team was Gay Dillingham with six goals during the whole game. Schiffer led the Elis to slip in five points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Team Rides Down Elis After Tough Uphill Battle | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Russ Greenhood will run up against a bit of opposition in the dive when he meets Noonan. Russ, however, has shown a consistent ability to pull himself out of some pretty tight places in the past, and, unless he makes a serious slip, ought to win by a comfortable margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY MERMEN FACE SPRINGFELD TONIGHT | 2/23/1938 | See Source »

Having compiled a mass of statistics, Metcalf was yesterday in a position to speak on a question which has long been a matter of dark speculation, just what happens when a prospective borrower turns in his slip at the call desk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Library Director to Coordinate 80 Separate Units in the University | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

...TIME'S account was accurate to a gnat's heel. You didn't even slip up on any of the neat little phrases that the publicity man naïvely inserted in the copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week sleepy-eyed Allen Bernard, crack reporter on the New York Journal and American, escaped from New York's model Rockland State Hospital for the Insane. Sixteen days before, he had signed a voluntary admission slip as "Allen Carlin," had begun a 30-day incarceration. But Reporter Bernard was not suffering from a breakdown nor looking for an eccentric vacation. He was on a job: to investigate asylum conditions for an exposé of New York's politically controlled lunacy commission system. Sharp City Editor Amster Spiro had given him the assignment because Reporter Bernard had done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crazy Carlin | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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