Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chiang led the attack. Nine thousand one hundred of his ten thousand men were killed; but he captured Waichow. Strangely he did not lose but rather gained prestige after this prodigious but chery of his own troops, for he had himself fought in the thick of it. The reformed sinner, now a mighty hero, retired after his vic tory to a Buddhist temple for three months, a vacation period of medi tation which he has several times since repeated. The year 1922 found him in Moscow, acting as military liason officer for Dr. Sun, who had despaired by then...
...which automatically build up the imaginative faculty. This science has long been prominent in Harvard College, not only because it is interesting, but also because its students learn by long-continued practice to visualize reality. They are bound to forget details in the earths structures and processes. They cannot lose the power gained in study. That same power remains, tending to give sounder judgment in political struggle, business venture, or social activity...
...American commanders in Chinese waters lose their heads as the majority of the American newspapers seem, to have lost theirs over the Nanking crisis this country will be involved in a war in China whose outcome will be very different from that of the Boxer outbreak 25 years...
...first speaker for the affirmative, Lamb maintained that all competitions were an evil both to the individual, and to the organization. He believed that candidates lose themselves in their competitions, and are therefore deprived of the true essence of college life...
Like stern proconsuls* of Imperial Rome, four Italian Colonial Governors make almost 2,000,000 natives smart with commands backed by steel. Two† of the four colonies have no native parliaments; and the other two** seemed about to lose theirs last week. At Rome the doom of every sort of native autonomy in Italian Colonies was sealed when Colonial Minister Luigi Federzoni published, last week, the text of a law approved for enactment by Dictator Benito Mussolini...