Word: lose
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...three sets; in the finals, for the best three out of five. Deuce and advantage sets are optional only in the semi-finals and finals. Matches must be played on the day scheduled, or defaulted. If a player is more than 30 minutes late, he will lose by default. All contestants in the tournament have first right to the use of courts...
Major Darwin summed up these advantages of private over municipal management by saying that private industries are likely to produce a larger return on a given capital than municipal industries, and that a city is more likely to lose than gain in its municipal ventures...
...have no serious financial effect upon Harvard University, we should realize the importance of the measure as an entering wedge, which, if it becomes a law, is likely to be extended to affect all college property. In the face of the fact that Harvard has proportionately less to lose than perhaps any other Massachusetts college or university, we are glad that President Eliot has still been one of the strongest opposers of the bill, on the ground that the interests of all our colleges are inseparable. The undergraduate opinion on the question may not be entirely unbiased...
...closing, Major Darwin said that municipal trade in England was not associated with either high or low taxation; and statistics proved that cities neither gain nor lose much from their municipal ventures...
...compact and concise statement of the conditions at Yale and Princeton, and a sanguine analysis of those at Harvard. If Mr. McKenna is right,--and that he is, is devoutly to be wished,--Harvard men may conclude their reading with a sigh of satisfaction, and, like the Coach, need lose on sleep. To one who for several years has not road closely the baseball columns of the daily papers, this article shows the amazing rapidity of growth possible in the technical language of a popular sport. Start who knock holes in batting averages are hold friends; a "comer...