Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college mind, a semplance of schoolboy delight in staying away from class. The baneful part is that the vacation is so limited as to be practically useless. Even the senior must return for his first class, remain for his last. Yet most undergraduates would defend them. One cannot lose conventionally in a fortnight...
...this situation President Crowley sees benefit to the railroads. The public is habituated by motor cars to traveling. What railroads lose from short-haul traffic, they gain in the long haul. The Twentieth Century Limited yearly carried as many passengers as are booked first class on all the trans-atlantic steamers, and runs 2,000 sections a year...
...second half, Team A once more and battle, and once more proved their superiority by outrushing their opponents by a wide margin, although they did not score. Late in the period the visitors blocked a 1929 punt, retrived the lose ball, and scored touchdown...
Young "Winnie" did not lose social caste by this escapade. Chancellor Churchill, still winning in middle age, was thought to have gained prestige for the whole Cabinet by his acrobatics of last week...
...liked to dance, that he read Voltaire, that he neither smoked, spat, nor swore. One newspaper declared that he was "a young philosopher." All his partisans said he was too nice. . . . Few of his opponents have thought so. Tunney hits hard; he is a sound boxer, does not lose his head in the ring, can stand up under punishment. When he fights, his face sometimes gets puckered up. It never gets nasty. The Champion William Harrison Dempsey-what he eats, wears, says, earns, fears, hopes for, and remembers-has supplied the news-mills with endless grist ever since the blazing...