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Word: slipping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allan Lee Whitman Jr. '53, who is in charge of the Weld Hall Committee for the Defense of the John Harvard Statute, plans to have several men on all-night vigil tonight in case invaders slip past police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Horde Comes Today; Yard Cops Ready Defenses | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

...exams have long been attacked by progressives as a "savage rite of French bourgeois snobbism." Philosopher-Scholar Etienne Gilson coupled the bac with alcoholism as the "twin scourges of the French people." Novelist René Barjavel complained in the weekly Carrefour, "[the bachot] is just a slip of paper proving that its owner has a minimum of general knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bac & the Trac | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Last week when Denise, along with other lucky French youngsters who had passed their bac, went job hunting, they would find the "slip of paper" still rated special consideration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bac & the Trac | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...look like goddesses, while their experience tells them that women only look like women. She assures the women, in their turn, that they can clean a two-story house, take the children to school, make a dress at home, cook a four-course meal, wash the dishes, and then slip into an opera gown, make brilliant conversation and look as ravishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...headed by popular, thin-skinned and independent Frank John Lausche, who probably would be running for re-election as governor. Lausche's name was enough to pull thousands of straight party votes so that any Tom, Dick or Joe, running as a Democratic candidate for the Senate, might slip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Republican Goes to Ohio | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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