Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three students this morning cornered a burly prowler under an attic bed on 9 Bow Street, stripped him of his glasses and his top coat, bent a poker over his skull, and then lot the intruder slip from their grasp and escape...
...When the sales of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. began to slip recently, Chairman-President James D. Mooney and Adman Ward M. Canaday, a top Willys stockholder, could not agree on what to do about it. Last week Mooney moved out as president, but stayed on as chairman. Canaday began shopping for another president. A likely candidate: ex-President Charles E. Sorensen, whom Canaday had kicked upstairs to vice chairman when Mooney came in three years ago. Thanks to an airtight contract from Canaday, Sorensen draws $1,000 a week for the next five years whether he does anything...
General examinations were abandoned four years ago. A thesis is the only remaining hurdle for honors candidates, and this can by-passed with five A's and a B for Cum Laude. Non-honors candidates can slip through with only the requireds plus a course in basic piano...
...there he was in the "batter's box," with two out and men on first and third. Giving up on the possibility of a hit, Billy Southworth ordered Masi to steal second. In the ensuing confusion, Southworth hoped to slip Russell unobtrusively across the plate with the tie-breaking...
...type general and divisional exams which went into effect in January make it impossible to slip through the course without work, Charles H. Tilly '50, president of the Society, added last night...