Word: lose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having purchased his marriage license yesterday, Frederick R. Suits IL, who is confined to his bed in Stillman Infirmary because of a throat infection, found that he is now about to lose his best man, John D. Daggett...
...considerable effort to jar them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet of formal lectures, prodded by quizzes and factual check-up tests to take every forward step, many undergraduates lose all power of self-starting merely through lack of either the opportunity or the incentive to develop that power...
...teachers. During the past month, Dr. Levin, with Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson, has shown belching sound films before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American College of Surgeons. Last week in Manhattan he disclosed to Lawyer Arturo Alessandri, ex-President of Chile, this interesting fact: patients who lose their larynxes do not lose their foreign accent. When they learn to talk in belches, they make the same mistakes...
Structure. As Sandburg's narrative of war and politics goes on, it gathers such momentum that he can toss in a chapter the length of an ordinary novel, dealing entirely with White House routine, and lose little by it. The look and sound and layout of Washington, the character of battles, the diversity of talk and action over the country emerge as clearly as the central presence of Lincoln, revealed in touches both familiar and unfamiliar (e.g., Emerson's noting that he "showed all his white teeth" when he laughed). On the bitter subject of conscription, North...
...glove is lost, a neuter single can be bought for mating because any glove can be worn on either hand. Die cut, it requires less labor to manufacture than an ordinary glove, but uses up 100% more goods. Priced cheaply, it might find a market with thrifty souls who lose an estimated million single gloves a year. Mark Cross priced it at $1.50 to $3.25 per glove (sold singly...