Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...necessary that we shall be; yet it does seem that the penalty now is too severe. To lose one's privilege of taking out books of that class means a great deal, especially since it is lost for a whole month, and this too, many times, when a little slip of the memory is alone the occasion. Is not the forfeit unnecessarily great...
...doubt if victory can come without it. Harvard is, naturally, much superior to Yale in such a matter as debating; students here have twice as many original ideas as come to Yale men. But if Yale has not original ideas, she certainly has a faculty for never letting slip a good idea that once she has grasped. Now if Harvard abandons to Yale past wisdom, and trusts in the power of her present efforts alone, the day is surely coming when she will lose. If, however, Harvard holds as fast as does Yale to the wisdom of experience, then...
...lets slide slip forward at the catch and is stiff...
FRENCH 1A.- Marks are ready and will be given out by letter or postal card or on slip bearing name of applicant and number of section...
...mistake in switching. As a whole, the story is very well written; but it has some minor faults which spoil its full effectiveness, though they do not by any means destroy the interest of the tale. It is not well to attach any great importance to a presumably careless slip, but it is amusing to hear of a dying wife "gazing forth contentedly" at her husband "as a dog looks at a bone...