Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some good field event men. On the other hand, the Pennsylvania aggregation is a well-balanced one and will take many seconds and thirds. It will probably happen that one of the two will detract a sufficient number of points from the other so as to allow Yale to slip into second place. The University team will have Michigan to contend with for fourth place, with the odds in favor of the latter for the position. The actual strength of the Western team is unknown and it is possible that it may be even a serious contender for first place...
...false lines will snap with a loud whang and the fun will be seen to burst forth. Games at tiddletywinks on fly paper have been arranged between the Whistle, the Opera, and the other clubs. At a seasonable time swift blacks will slip wholesome clams amongst the avid throng...
...third and the seventh, in which it did not score. Otherwise things moved along very nicely for everyone but the umpire. He had his hands full and was so overcome by the ease with which Harvard scored that he could not bear to see an opportunity for a tally slip by. Accordingly, after calling Coon safe at second in the fourth inning on a somewhat doubtful decision, he gave that player a safe at the plate when it seemed to many beside the Colby team that he was an easy...
...showed that 272 Harvard men, a large proportion of them graduate students, had devoted at least one hour a week to philanthropic work. At this time when plans for this service are maturing, the demand for workers far exceeds the supply. More men should realize the opportunity they let slip in neglecting these chances for developing invaluable power of management...