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Word: losely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them. In major league baseball we play for business; to make money. Those men who play in college play for recrestion, and not as a duty. They do not have to work hard; they play. Men on a major league team work very bara every day or they soon lose out. Consequently when college graduates come into organized baseball, they find it very difficult to get down to the hard strain of every day playing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miller Huggins, Microscopic Manager of the New York Americans, Finds College Men Poor Big League Material | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Alumnae Association of that college, is an article by no less a person than Le Baron R. Briggs, entitled "Not Always to the Swift". Here one is encouraged to encourage Radcliffe, remembering that "the race is not always to" the hare, and that seldom does the tortoise lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RACE QUESTION | 4/29/1927 | See Source »

...clock in Sever 26. Of the trinity of Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes, Sophocles is generally regarded as the greatest. He lacks the stiffness, yet retains the force of Aeschylus, and although he does not have the breadth and finesse of Euripedes, he does not lose the power which Euripedes, in his development of the tragedy has lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/29/1927 | See Source »

Philip D. Armour I's wealth helped James G. Elaine lose the presidency to Grover Cleveland in 1884. With Jay Gould, Henry H. Rogers, Cyrus W. Field, Russell Sage and other men of "oppressive wealth" he gave a dinner to Mr. Elaine at Delmonico's in Manhattan, just before the 1884 elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burnt Grain | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...much plot as a revue and ten times the humor. Moreover, the imposing array of Wardles, Wellers, and Dickensonian whatnots, compensate for any lack of structure. "The Pickwick Papers" had no definite plot; to have invented one for its dramatic counterpart would have been to lose much of the spirit of the original...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: OLD WINE--NEW BOTTLES DICKENS AS IS | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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