Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third-year players lose both games, the league schedule will end in a triple tie, and the team to go to Yale will be chosen...
...lose one single man, woman or child," ordered onetime Governor (now Flood Relief Director of Louisiana) John Milliken Parker last week, as flood waters broke through into central and southern Louisiana. Even as he was speaking, from 500 to 700 men, women and children were marooned on a twelve-mile remnant of what had been a 50-mile levee along the Bayou de Glaize. Scores of rescue boats struggled toward them...
Sculptor John Gregory of Manhattan launched upon a vision of what architects and allied artists would accomplish: "The nation will be engrossed in art. Streets will lose their present character and become canyons of brass and color. They will be designed in units rather than as collections of buildings...
...long enough for a police-man to walk one mile. The previous breath-holding record is reported to have been approximately ten minutes, at the University of California, in 1916. Were Breather Gaylor to attempt living in an atmosphere surcharged with pure oxygen he would soon become drowsy, lose appetite, weight, and finding real difficulty in breathing, he would turn bluish and eventually die. This has been known since Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, whom French Revolutionists guillotined* in 1794, named the gas. But the reason has been learned only recently-by C. A. Binger, J. M. Faulkner and R. L. Moore...
...National Retail Dry Goods Association in Chicago last week, President Homer Buckley of Buckley, Dement & Co., Chicago, said: "The theory [that the customer is always right] is sound because 99% of the people are honest. The other 1% takes advantage of the practice and the store may lose on the deal, but the loss is compensated by keeping the others satisfied." Because two years ago 12% of gross volume of department store sales was returned by dissatisfied customers, the University of Pittsburgh is conducting research to learn just who is at fault-customer or merchant. Data so far accumulated indicates...