Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats and insurgent Republicans when they combine will have a voting majority in the 70th Senate. In the present session this situation has been true to a limited extent. That ancient maxim may be applied to the Democrats in this autumn's campaign: they have nothing to lose, everything to gain...
...peace our neighbors are our customers, and that their prosperity is a condition of our own wellbeing. If we check their dealings, their power to pay their debts diminishes and their power to purchase our goods is reduced. Restricted imports involve restricted exports, and no nation can afford to lose its export trade...
Rabbits had been used for the tests on animal tissue. A tenth of a second's exposure for a patch of ear-skin had made the patch lose its hair and turn dark. Not for seven weeks did hair reap, pear. Another patch was exposed for a second. A scab formed in a few days, fell off taking the hair with it-and in two weeks a growth of new hair, white instead of grey and thrice as profuse as previously, sprouted...
...course she was not superlative. Her great height is against her. Her voice is not satisfying. It carries well, but needs only the slightest strain to make it harsh, unreal. Her features are not mobile, so that she is reduced to great reality without losing the overtones of dependence upon bodily gesture. Above all, she is faced with the task of interrupting allegory, giving it the ring of fantasy. That she is in any way sufficient to the task is remarkable. Yet she shows an understanding of the part which is admirable and there is never a moment when...
...presence of women he would often lose his simple forthright manner and turn himself into a pompous and mouthy sentimentalist-or else remain spellbound and silent...