Word: lose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, in the warm sitting room of a small house at Louveciennes. Several correspondents hovered irritably around the placid players, not quite daring to interrupt. From the bottom of profane hearts they cursed Old Dr. Turner for the maddening deliberation of his moves. Why didn't he lose, or win? A pox on backgammon! They wanted to interview the other venerable player, the grizzled yet roly-poly one, the man with the shrewd smiling eyes, the Marshal of France, Joseph Joffre, 76, famed hero of the Battle of the Marne...
...rushed across the Hoover line, fouled it, dragged the new Hoover reel off the new Hoover rod. As Pundit Sullivan landed his dolphin, the sun sank. The President-elect went home for supper. Allan Hoover, out fishing with Secretary George Akerson, caught nothing and thereby caused his mother to lose...
Shawls were soon supplanted by army blankets-lucrative civil war contracts Fisk secured for his Boston firm. And before long he was buying cotton at 12? a pound in the South, selling it at $2 in the North. Some days he bought $800,000 worth, only to lose it (well insured) on the Mason Dixon line. One day, pursued by a Rebel patrol, he tossed them his wallet stuffed with $300,000, and made off with his more precious life...
...final cost [incurred due to the War] will run well toward $100,000,000,000, or half the entire wealth of the country when we entered the conflict. . . . We should like to have our Government debts all settled, although it is probable that we could better afford to lose them than our debtors could afford not to pay them...
...lose, or draw, this marks Joe Forecast's swan-song. Never again will the Forecast pen disturb the virgin whiteness of paper. I pass on to bigger, better, and more lucrative fields. Whither matters not--sufficient to say that next year, and the years thereafter (unless Joe, Jr. suddenly turns intelligent) the CRIMSON readers must figure for themselves the outcome of the games...