Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some months past foreign speculators have been trying to force the franc up. They would profit by an upsurge, and by the downsurge sure to follow; and in the meantime France would lose immeasurably through the disruption of business occasioned by unsteady currency. Just now France sits fiscally pretty. Her trade balance is favorable. The Treasury has recently refunded advances previously made to it by the Bank of France to the amount of 900,000,000 francs. Such are the blessings which have flowed from holding the franc steady at its present value for almost two years (TIME...
...recounts in a series of story-sketches the drama within quiet cities. In Albany Angenietje defies the customs of a stodgy Dutch community by marrying a British ensign who had survived Ticonderoga. At Natchez a steamboat card sharp turned respectable, acquired a Southern gentleman's plantation, only to lose it through the backbiting of a jealous mulatto woman...
Candidate Curtis, the Party's patient, swart, Indian-blooded Senate housekeeper, headed for the convention with greater hope than anxiety. He had nothing to lose except the votes of Kansas and his daughter. He had everything to gain in case of a compromise, for while he was not the fastest of the "dark horses," he was at least "dark" (see below). In Kansas City he was sure to see more friends than frustrators. On the farm issue he had voted for the farmers, then obeyed his President. Friendship and obedience make good bedfellows for ambition. And after the Presidency...
...revealed 75 pairs of lungs that cannot last five years. An effort is being made to examine each of the 1,500 subway workers of Manhattan, but the men are afraid. Silicosis is not on the list of Industrial Diseases; men found to be suffering from it would probably lose their jobs; would receive no compensation...
...form for sermons as it is now a subject for them. Processions, pageants, performances -this was a slow, natural sequence. Not be fore the 1 5th century did audiences, growing more interested in the character of the customary devil than that of Christ, cause these moralities to lose their holy character. Dramatic interpretations of the gospels are not yet without their spiritual value. Last week, in Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury, England, there was performed The Coming of Christ, a nativity play written in the antique tradition by famed Poet John Masefield...