Word: lose
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Brown will lose only five of its first and second string football men by gradution this spring. Among these are Sprague, who was regular centre, Wade, a regular guard, and Ward, who would undoubtedly have been regular tackle had not injuries kept him on the hospital list for a greater part of the season. The other two seniors are Murphy, substitute quarterback, and Ormsby, substitute...
...with the minor sports. Their existence from year to year is uneven. A championship team may lose its men by graduation, and the next year the team, composed entirely of green men, will head the bottom of the list. The reasons for a lack of good substitute material in the minor sports are many. One is that men fear the handicap of inexperience. A man who has never tried any sport will go bravely out for football. Yet he will be afraid of fencing because, through his own ignorance, it seems an impossible art to attain...
...never been attacked, even when its navy was almost a minus quantity? Again, shall we disregard the testimony of such military experts as General Erasmus Weaver, who has assured the House Committee on Military Affairs that our coast defences are inferior to none in the world, or shall we lose eight of our system of mines, submarines and fortifications, which Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt declares make "a navy almost unnecessary if all we want is to defend our coast"? The oceans have always constituted, and always will constitute, our first line of defence; the tremendous significance...
...Secondly, does the crew that is behind at the third mile race usually lose? Yes, it does, but this is from the fact that the crew ahead at the third mile is greatly superior to the other crews. In all my 20 years of studying rowing I have never seen a crew which won a four mile race and was a length ahead at the third mile which was not superior in every way to the other crew or crews. This crew would have won just as easily if the race had been the shorter distance. Moreover I have seen...
...stopping war, either a league of the nations of the earth for that purpose or the domination of the whole world by one government. The latter does not come within American philosophy, for we would not be that nation if we could, and if we did, we should lose in the process all in the way of politics principles that we have stood for, and we certainly cannot contemplate a domination of the world by any other nation...