Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...searching for the cause of common colds Professor Abel and his Johns Hopkins associates are attacking a disease (it may be a collection of diseases) that makes every working man lose 1.4 days of his working year and every woman 2.1 days of hers. Four out of ten men get bad colds each year; seven out of ten women get them. The problem is serious. But with $195,000 and with other sums forthcoming if needed, it is certain to be solved. Money can provide support, equipment and leisure...
Most of the old road's capitalization was in bonds. All classes of security holders (except the U. S. Government which had loaned the road $55,000,000 and the owners of $182,130,960 especially safe-guarded bonds) lost. But they did not lose everything. Among the debris of the St. Paul's crash lay many a valuable share, which the re-organization managers, whom Jerome J. Hanauer's† gloved hand directed, fitted together a new pot for gold...
...have failed to realize his personification of Harvard's gentleman liness and scholarship. Any one of these experiences would be more than sufficient to make the announcement of Professor Copeland's resignation from the Faculty tragic if the fact of his resigning made it conceivable that he would lose one iota of his nearness to the University. He is and ever will be Harvard's as much as University Hall is Harvard's, and into Hollis Hall he has, with the charm of the magician, brought the Harvard of the past, the present, and it is to be hoped...
According to a recent survey of the Legal Aid Board of the Law School the eternal controversy between landlord and tenant is not being allowed to lose any of its acerbity in Cambridge. Students in the College and in the Graduate schools are being sued right and left by their proprieters and are in danger of having their chattels thrown into the street. They have been confronting the Legal Aid Society with more woes than come from any other single source, and it is likely that the battle will contine to rage although the Board is making masterly efforts...
...inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries she was distributing between a young Fascist and a pair of shady young Neapolitan noblemen. Suddenly understanding that death would be more terrible for Charles Orbison had he her love as well as life to lose, Claire accomplished the brave as well as the theatrically perfect conclusion. Exaggerating her accustomed appearance of chattering artificiality, she blew him a kiss and left Raona...