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Word: losely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conscientious desire to remove an existing evil. But no matter how earnest its endeavor, the faculty can never accomplish its purpose without the cooperation of the students themselves. A pledge of the sort required can do little good by itself. Those sincere enough to refuse such a promise will lose their party, but drinking will not be decreased. Those who accept it without compliance with its spirit will in all probability be able to find loopholes by whch they will be able to maintain their pledged word without serious detriment to their enjoyment. The only cases where a pledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESSURE | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...problem which is essentially one for Yale alone, it would seem to the average student that the position of the News is no more than logical. To establish each department as a unit would be to strength both; and neither would be to strength both; and neither would lose touch, since the title of Yale University would, as it does now, include both "Sheff" and the college. This tendency toward simplification is but another example of the present Oxford movement. When colleges cease to fear the restrictions of names a great advance will have been accomplished. Tradition will remain inviolate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSE DIVIDED | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...resume their proper place after centuries of slavery, and to remedy the pitiful poverty of their resources, the Italian people have no time to lose. I tell you, and make it known to the whole world, that not even the last man among 42,000,000 Italians has a single minute to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Weasel | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Terriers Win and Lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUINTET FACES B. U. IN OPENING GAME | 12/17/1926 | See Source »

...above all he is that. The power greater than that of instilling knowledge, that of stimulating the imagination, is his. Gilbert Murray is soon to leave Harvard, but he will leave behind him things intangible yet real--personal inspiration, and a realization that it is a mistake ever "to lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO GILBERT MURRAY | 12/17/1926 | See Source »

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