Word: losee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshmen tend to lose interest in science during the first year of residence, von Stade also noted in his report. Although nearly 50 per cent of '62 intended to concentrate in the natural sciences last fall, only 34.2 per cent remained in the field by spring. Only 20.8 per cent had planned to concentrate in the social sciences at the start of the Freshman year, but six months later 39.7 per cent chose fields within the area...
...woman who has taken a little leaven and has hidden it in dough and has made large loaves of it. Whoever has ears let him hear. But others have a surprising new emphasis, like the saying which immediately follows the above and seems to indicate that one can lose one's chance to enter the Kingdom through ignorance: The Kingdom of the Father is like a woman who was carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking on a distant road, the handle of the jar broke. The meal streamed out behind her on the road...
Horror and consternation reign in the daffy duchy, whose rulers had not intended to win the war at all but to lose it. The whole object was to get rich quick on U.S. appropriations for war relief...
...purchaser loses when the stock does not move enough to cover the costs of the put or call, or when it moves the wrong way. Then the buyer loses the amount he paid for the option. While puts and calls are primarily used for speculating, they are also being used more to limit losses, protect paper profits, and for tax advantages. Primarily, they are for the stock market sophisticate who can afford to lose the premiums he must pay to speculate...
...other school, an A ends matters; here without marks you can't win." If a girl responds correctly to these discomforts, the results can be very gratifying, for the quest for knowledge will outlast the final session of the course. There is a risk, however, that the student will lose her way without the tangible incentive of a good mark...