Word: lose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University debaters engaged in two contests Saturday night, one team meeting Carleton College here under a no-decision agreement, and another journeying to Wesleyan to lose by a vote of the audience. Tonight in Holden Chapel still a third group will face Brown University...
...would receive an additional pound for every seat they win above that number. Inversely, if one sells Liberals at 80, and if only 70 candidates of that party are returned to the House, one pockets a crisp "tenner" ($48.60). To guess wrong in either buying or selling is to lose a pound a seat...
...reasons why the various universities declined to enter the contest this year have not been divulged, but it seems that the only thing Harvard will lose by this is a considerable amount of publicity. It is doubtful whether many people took last year's culture battle as anything but a huge joke, and the final outcome had little significance outside of resulting in a gain of $5,000 for the Harvard English department...
...middle-aged Manchester merchant who is threatened with paralysis. Determined not to live in half measures and die a lingering death, he hurries to Switzerland while his resolution is still high, there to climb his favorite mountain by an almost impossible route. If he should slip a foothold, or lose his ice-axe, while making every honest effort to climb, it would be fate, and not cowardly suicide. Perched perilously on a vertical boulder of ice, exhausted, he is on the verge of loosening hand and toe grip when he hears a call of distress from above. In such...
There is a price to be paid for this kind of verisimilitude. Laughter and tears may be close to one another, but the distance between naturalness and high emotional crisis is so far that it is difficult not to lose conviction at one end or the other of the journey. Both Miss Cowl and Mr. Merivale ring a tone less true within Peter's dream than out of it. Perhaps it is a subtlety that this should be so in a dream land...