Word: lose
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remember that the United States is not the only nation that stands to lose some of her former privileges by joining the League of Nations; the mere fact of co-operating to enforce world peace means sacrifice and some degree of give and take on the part of all concerned. We have preached unselfishness and brotherhood long enough; now is the time to make good our declarations. C. S. JOSLYN...
...plot of the comedy is developed around the rise and fall of a Bolshevik prince, who usurps the throne of the Kingdom of Ptomainia, only to lose his insecure seat later, because of his tyranical mismanagement of the affairs of that worthy empire. The action is divided into three acts and five scenes, entitled respectively, "The Day Before Yesterday," "Yesterday," "Today," "Tomorrow," and "The Day After Tomorrow...
...country that has most to lose by war and disorder and anarchy, the United States has most to gain by peace and security. Some senators and representatives of the United States and other public men argue that we must take care of ourselves. When the conditions of the world proved to be such that the British Empire has been absolutely unable to take care of itself alone, when the alert and courageous French nation was all but strangled, when Russia with a hundred and sixty million people breaks into fragments, what guarantee has the United States of America that...
...than has been reported for influenza and pneumonia occurring during the same period at other institutions. The mortality among the influenza-pneumonia cases in some hospitals has been over fifty per cent and many have reported over thirty per cent so that Harvard has been very fortunate not to lose over eleven per cent...
...international disputes than by the accustomed resort to arms. To the intellectually timid this seems such a daring and impetuous leap from the secure confines of precedent, over the chasm of unfathomable disaster, to the safe but somewhat precarious region of a new and better international life, that they lose no opportunity to be-little its advantages and magnify its difficulties. Such men are utterly out of tune with the age in which they live; in their minds they are living in the day when "might took the place of right, and the weak were oppressed, and the mighty ruled...