Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seat of the next world broil-with the brooding Balkans as an alternative. The World's Work, for example, devoted nearly its entire April issue to such subjects as: "Fever Spots in the World's Politics," "Where the Next World War will Start," "How We Shall Lose the Next...
...will get the Chinese trade which Britain may lose? Japan and France want it. Therefore, the French avoided every clash with Chinese last week; and only as a matter of dire necessity did some Japanese Marines at Hankow unlimber their machine guns to disperse a Chinese mob which attempted to loot the Japanese concession there. Two Chinese were killed; but if Baron Shidehara can manage it, their blood will not be the beginning of red freshets on Japanese steel...
...bankruptcies were caused by suits against Adair Realty & Trust Ca. for $915.45 and against Adair & Senter for $23,221.18. They could not pay their debts promptly, for their own money was frozen in real estate mortgages and in construction projects.* So Adair investors will probably lose about 25% of their money. Said Forrest Adair last week, in rueful summary of the real estate mortgage bond business: "Each separate issue of bonds is made by a separate company, and secured by a separate mortgage, and as to 75% or more of these bonds, the mortgage securing the same is ample...
...HEIRS OF MRS. HILL LOSE," heading a small item, brought echoes of mighty days and mighty men. Mrs. Mary T. Hill was the widow of James Jerome Hill, the "Empire Builder." He thrust railway lines to the Pacific, made millions in the process. The heirs of his widow have paid over $3,000,000 in inheritance taxes to the U. S. government; last week they lost their suit to recover...
...Hasty Pudding Shows will entertain the first year men with songs and specialty acts. George Owen, the only man who has been a nine letter man since the Freshman ruling, was put through, will speak, followed by R. L. Summers Jr., president of the Freshman class. The meeting will lose with a semi-slow moving picture of the last Yale football game...