Word: lose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problematical New Jersey. Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Democratic Senators Edwards, Gerry and David Ignatius Walsh, respectively, were defending their seats. The intersection of senatorial and presidential campaigns is usually figured the other way around. In the event of a Hoover landslide, the Democrats might lose not only the Presidency but a Senate seat each in four States where they now have both seats. In Montana, Senator Wheeler might get ousted; in Tennessee, Senator McKellar. In Missouri, Democrat Charles M. Hay, slated to fill the seat of fierce retiring-Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed, might lose to Republican R. C. Patterson...
...reasonable, then, that du Pont and Grasselli should recognize each other's traditions, experience, should propose to Grasselli's stockholders a consolidation. Neither company will lose its identity, for du Pont contracts to continue Grasselli production of heavy chemicals under Grasselli's name...
...would see the year's best group of contemporary paintings must go to Pittsburgh, Cleveland or Chicago. Nowhere else will the Carnegie Institute's 27th International Exhibition be shown.* Reproductions will be plentiful, but they are makeshifts. They indicate form, com position, but lose the sumptuous significance of color...
...that brilliant young man" was believed to be holding his fire. He had more to gain, for his own cause of getting Progressives elected to Congress throughout the Northwest, by waiting for a more dramatic moment to declare himself. He had much to lose from his reputation for square-speaking if he did not ultimately declare himself. Because, besides the utterances of the LaFollette organs, there were other elements and developments...
...phrase "The Great Abstraction" seemed destined to stick to Hoover, win or lose...