Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will find at present at least ten times as many Chinese students coming here as going to all the countries of Europe put together. In Japan, however, the situation is different. The Japanese have always been closely connected with England and France, as well as Germany, and we also lose many of the best Japanese students through our right immigration laws. The higher type of Japanese refuses to go through the disagreeable degradation which has become necessary in entering the United States...
...people turned away, nine of whom took their disappointment so ill-humoredly that they were arrested for being disorderly. There were those who offered $100, $150 for a seat, one man who paid $25 for admission to stand. And through it all, a person who did not seem to lose her head was the girl with the voice that was creating all the excitement, the girl who had provided the daily press with one of the best human-interest stories of the year?the new prima donna, 19-year-old Marion Nevada Talley, who for the big evening last week...
...from the human standpoint, the danger of over-specialization exists to a great degree in a university of graduates. With the efficient elimination of friction between the scholar and the simple seeker of a baccalaureate degree devotees of higher learning are apt to lose one of their few remaining contacts with the world. Just this lack of varied experience prevents the scholar from becoming a great teacher. Since the American plan of advanced study well nigh excludes its followers from the untheorized actions of their fellow men, it is to a certain degree incomplete...
Among aristocratic women, the game is particularly popular, a result not out of harmony with the comment of Owen Wiset's Virginian that Queen Elizabeth would have made a good poker player. Any woman who could fool a Spanish king certainly would not lose money to a cowboy...
...bore the signature "Paul von Hindenburg." If the vote of confidence should be defeated, the Chancellor would announce that President von Hindenburg believed that only a general election could terminate the three-cornered deadlock now existing between the various Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment to announce that he had obtained a few minor concessions from the Allies respecting the evacuation of the Rhineland. The effect was electrical and cleared the air for the Government...