Word: lose
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...college, by contrast, attending one class during shopping period necessarily means missing out on the introduction to another course. Even if we wiggle our way out in the middle of the hour to scramble to another lecture, we unavoidably lose out on its opening. The KSG system demands no such trade...
Sophomore Fran Volpe, a 177 pound Harvard wrestler, said he has heard wrestlers brag about how many pounds they can lose to make weight. Volpe reminds us, though, that this pride is merely a strange offshoot of the sport and should not detract from the essence of wrestling itself...
...November 7, 1997, Billy Jack Saylor, a Campbell University wrestler, died of a heart attack while trying to shed pounds before dawn. Saylor was riding a stationary bike while wearing a rubber suit--a common technique used to lose water-weight. While Saylor's death through dehydration may have seemed like a tragic fluke to some, November had yet another shocking event in store...
When asked if it was more difficult to lose weight the lighter you are, Mosley said, "Sure. It's more difficult to cut that weight when you're lighter because it's a higher percentage of your body weight. It's tough...
...wrestled at the same weight the whole time I've been here," Volpe said. "The new weigh-in rules definitely help the level of competition in the matches. On the whole, you're going to see much better wrestling. The last two or three pounds are the hardest to lose. They seem to take...