Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College. Underneath a large cut of a well-known college president there ran a bold face paragraph which mixed up college men and Pullman smoking compartments with disquieting innuendo. Readers of the more widely circulated journals may be interested to know that Mr. Nielson finds that college men lose all marks of their special training after ten to fifteen years when viewed in the storied light of a Pullman smoking room, but it is hardly fit food for the thought of Commonwealth avenue...
...Crest, the most fashionable street in Zenith; he had some taste in etchings; he did not split many infinitives; and he sometimes enjoyed Beethoven. He would certainly (so the observer assumed) produce excellent motor cars; he would make impressive speeches to the salesmen, but he would never love passionately, lose tragically, nor sit in contented idleness upon tropic shores...
...they contain germs caught from the hen or absorbed through the shell pores; 2) they lose water by evaporation through the shell, a condition which helps break down the membrane between yellow and white; 3) they are kept at a temperature too high, which causes chemical reactions, if not the formation of embryos; .4) most important and only newly discovered, the alkalinity of white and yolk has increased...
Alkalinity increases because carbon dioxide escapes through the shell from the white. Then the white absorbs carbon dioxide from the yolk, only to lose it again through the shell. Result of the loss is that the yolks get flabby, the whites watery...
...this request even the most friendly could not respond, for while the letter was on its way, the choleric, anti-U.S. weekly Britannia (TIME, Nov. 5) had failed under the extravagant editorship of Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau and was about to lose its identity in a merger with England's popular Eve, according to statements issued by wealthy, wiry William Harrison, owner of both publications and some 25 other periodicals...