Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DuBois '24 was the only man of the Harvard team to lose his match, dropping it to W. B. Mclivaine after a snappy contest 15-11, 10-15, 15-13, 16-14. It is expected that these two men will be close rivals in the Class B state tournament which begins next Monday...
...true that the "sharp cleavage between the periods of cultural and professional training causes a professional student to lose all his cultural habits while he concentrates on preparation for the serious business of life"? It is hard to define "cultural habits", but presumably, they are the life-long habits which the College is now supposed to create. If the professional student loses these habits during his severe training, the college has not succeeded; and the remedy for this is not an amalgamation of college and graduate school, but an improvement in college methods...
...tendency is to syndicate the press. The Rothmere syndicate in England controls over 60 percent of the daily papers. Over here Hearst and--on a smaller scale and slightly higher plane,--Munsey, are working along the same lines. As the papers become more powerful and centralized in control, they lose more than ever their individuality...
...resources France could get progressively from the collection of her claim on Germany. "To be sure, all that could not be done in a few words or in the open street. But discussion of the matter is inevitable and France would gain by beginning it, whereas she can only lose by avoiding it. An arrangement with the United States would give useful points for fixing future payments by Germany. If it were well made with sufficient elasticity it would help stabilize French exchange. In addition, it would perhaps, in response to those who represent France as the enemy of British...
...American life", and never fail to point a moral! To the jaded American move-goer, this moralizing is usually the last straw which urges him to demand his money back; while his object in going at all is often to get away from the realities of "American life" and lose himself in the make-believe world presented in the cinema...