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Word: slipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour, white-haired veteran of many a League session, did not let the occasion slip by without reminding the world that there were other aggressions and other aggressors. M. Paul-Boncour said that France and Britain were today fighting to "defend the very principle on which the League was founded," that they were indeed at war with the chief "author of European aggression"-Adolf Hitler. The Finns welcomed the moral support, but pressed for greater assurances of more material aid. In Moscow the British and French League speeches were described in the Soviet press as having "exceeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Minus a Member | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

What would she do? To try to run that Allied gantlet would be suicide. Spee had had time to make herself seaworthy, but not battleworthy. A rumor got around that Captain Langsdorff would slip her across the Plata's mouth to Buenos Aires, there perhaps to intern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Aside from the slip of giving one Dr. Cutter the other's title every thing in TIME'S story was substantially correct. Dr. Fishbein is denying in some cases things that TIME did not say; in others, quibbling on technicalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...unlimited class, Tudor Gardiner failed to show his best wrestling form and was pinned by Mathew Cummings of Tufts. Cummings' consistently good form allowed him to take advantage of Gardnier's slip...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Varsity Wrestlers Overcome Jumbos 24-8; Daughaday and Thomas Star | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...there is no doubt by this time that Director Erford Gage has an experienced knowledge of what constitutes good theatre--even though he lets slip some clumsy moments in the first act bridge scene. Stage Manager Hildon Cooper probably has budget troubles, but he relies on simplicity for his effectiveness. These stock productions are always a bit rough and sometimes they are even crude, but they've got something more than finish: the proper attitude toward the theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

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