Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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EVEN before reading this "Odyssey" have always felt that among the types of men who could not write literature were war heroes and professional journalists. War heroes usually make the stuff of romance seem commonplace; journalists lose distinction of style and the ability to take pains...
Alfred Salmon, rich and potent Chairman of J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. ("the Childs restaurants of Britain") and a director of Salmon and Gluckstein Ltd. (Empire famed tobacconists) : "I declared last week: 'Most young men lose great opportunities because they insist on congenial hours of work, enabling them to devote a good deal of time to sport; profitable businesses, such as hotel and restaurant-keeping are surrendered to foreigners by sport-ridden British youths who wish to be free to play games in the evening...
...purely secondary, and was borne home to the mind only after long and careful consideration of the action. The feature of the Attic drama was its power of lifting the human soul out of itself, and causing the mind in a contemplation of spiritualities mightier than itself, to lose sight of petty earthly troubles...
...interested in the outpourings of undergraduates or the freshness of "young thought." He feels, perhaps, that he is getting into something a little aesthetic or sophomoric or otherwise disconcerting when he opens its pages, and that if he is going to read something it would perhaps be better to lose himself in the standard graces of "The Saturday Evening Post." The reviewer, as a matter of fact, approached the flaming, covers of the Advocate in much that frame of mind. In days gone by he, too, had been an editor of the Advocate...
...only one of the three soccer teams to lose was the University Seconds, which went down to defeat before the Four Rivers Juniors, a metropolitan football club, by a 3 to 1 score. The club players were too experienced for the Crimson booters, and their play showed greater finish and desisiveness. The visitors' forward line functioned particularly well, and kept the second team defense on the run. Bell and Mitchelson piereed this defense for scores, the former counting twice. Arnold, aggressive center of the Crimson outfit, sent the sphere between the posts for his team's lone score