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Word: slides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time of the school year when everything seems to be going on at once, meeting after meeting is clamoring for the busy students attention, and the assignments seem especially heavy, there comes the temptation to let things slide and just hit the "high spots" so to speak. Although there is a limit to the things which a student can do it is remarkable what can be accomplished by a little systematization, not only in study but in other lines of endeavor as well. If the average student counted up the hours absolutely wasted in idle talk or in some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 4/24/1922 | See Source »

...contest at Concord, N. H. on Saturday. The game was won and lost at the goals, for Mason, who tended the St. Paul's net stopped every one of the hard drives that the coordinating forward line drove at him, while Cantillon let three easy, bouncing shots slide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1925 SKATERS LOSE TO ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL SIX | 2/13/1922 | See Source »

...piece of team-play by him and Baker, the latter doing the actual scoring. Martin took the leading role in the second Crimson tally, carrying the puck up to and through the B. A. A. defence and giving it the final push which gave it enough momentum barely to slide, flat on the ice, past Stillman. His part in the final goal has been told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THRILLING HOCKEY GAME ENDS A 3-3 TIE AFTER TWO OVERTIME PERIODS | 2/1/1922 | See Source »

...ball quivers and starts to go down the field. A mighty shout goes up. Then something happens, and the ball stops, looks, listens and and turns in the other direction. Loud groans. A wooden slide in the mechanism of the scoreboard rattles into place, upside down. Agile spectators figure out that it says "Pass failed...

Author: By Robert Benchley and President OF Lampoon, S | Title: OF ALL THINGS | 11/19/1921 | See Source »

...leave it to the mathematicians with their slide rules to figure out whether the problem can be solved this side of infinity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFINITE PROHIBITION | 10/25/1921 | See Source »

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