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Word: lose (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Blind eyes look - and lose the light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A YEAR AGO. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

EDISON.The next morning found me in New York, closeted with Edison. He divulged to me his discovery in these words: "I have often thought how great a pity it is that you students are so inconvenienced by the street-car arrangement, and how much you lose by being so far from the literary air of Boston; so, when I learned that there was no chance of an elevated road to Boston, I decided to tell you of my invention. I propose to put a pneumatic tube underground from Cambridge to Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDISON'S LATEST. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

...whom they did not expect, has entered. To win one race at Harvard has been sufficient, in the past, to scare all other competitors out of the field for that event, and the result has been continual "walk-overs" for the lucky few. No doubt, it is unpleasant to lose in a contest, but there is almost as much satisfaction in losing pluckily a well-fought race as in winning it. Besides, the man who perseveres is bound, sooner or later, to come out creditably. Laziness and indifference have also a large share of influence in keeping men from entering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLUCK IN ATHLETICS. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

...does not go to an hour examination they call it one thing, and if he does go they call it another, thus getting the dead-wood on him in either case. This is certainly a very pretty embodiment of the principle "Heads I win, tails you lose." If I knew to whom the credit of originating this ingenious device were due, I should be glad to give his name, in order that he might meet with the recognition which he deserves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

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