Word: losely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hundreds of thousands of prices tickets are sold, all numbered, at prices seldom above ?1 ($5). The total ticket sale, less operator's percentage, is the prize money. Numbers are drawn for the horses entered in the race. The vast majority of ticketholders, failing to "draw a horse" lose their bets. The dozen or so lucky subscribers can sell shares in their tickets for large sums, thus profiting certainly before the horses have won, lost or failed...
...They should not be. The responsibilities of government now rest largely upon the stupid, the untrained, the men of ward mentality. Certain members of the present administration at Washington are eloquent testimony to this condition. Many men today graduate with a natural aptitude for the Public Service, only to lose it in a downtown office a few years later. These men in Germany or in England would be public men of importance. Here the tradition of government service is dangerously weak. It should be built up by more such addresses as those given yesterday by Mr. Dawes at Washington University...
...ladies of one-sort and the other sort to have their pictures taken by loving cavaliers. And they come on Sunday afternoons. Hour after hour old John sits behind these giggling groups of visitors (one hopes they are all visitors) and watches them at their sport. Thus does he lose his rest--and, occasionally, for beauty is not always rouge deep, his appetite...
...carrying the same type of goods, would form a compact southwestern system worth half a billion dollars. Mr. Loree, Chairman of both the K. C. Southern and the "Katie" would be enabled to save vast sums in operating costs and in financing. But, were the roads merged, they would lose their apparent and precious competitive aspect. That would be against the public interest and warranted, with other factors, disapproval...
...willing to accept a one-year interval in the long series of annual games. But, if Harvard desires to discontinue football relations with Brown, which seems unlikely, we are quite as willing to accept the break as the Crimson. Harvard has just as much to lose from such a move as Brown...