Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lure of fame, of course, gets many, and will always get a few each year. But a man like Red Grange has no future after his college football days are over, unless some latent ability of his is still uncovered. His risk of injury is great, and he may lose his whole means of earning money within a few days. The greater a man is, the sooner he may fall. And great men, especially in athletics are just curiosities. The public wants to see them once, and that's usually all. We may take grange's recent visit to Boston...
...would have to pay $160,000,000 while all the taxes she collects are $850,000,000. He declared that if Italy had income tax exemptions of $1,000 for single men, $2,500 for married couples, and $400 additional for each child, Italy would lose 99% of her income tax revenue ? Italians are so poor. He said...
...introduces to Plympton Street and to the world at each end of Plympton Street, and even beyond, a column worthy longer and wider streets or greens or whatnot, a column which will at worst be a cenotaph, at best a pillar of salt. For, "if the salt shall lose its savor"--whereof the column? To Perfervid Professors and People In The Next Seats is it dedicated. Civilizations and columns are built on both...
...Iowa State Colege bulletin, Iowa farmers lost 525,000,000 in 1914 owing to weeds. R. F. Foster, famed card player, jotted this fact down; and it became recently the point of departure for a chapter in a book on religion. How many millions of dollars does society lose because of human weeds! So, with the most orthodox technique, he develops his subject...
...Farrell addressed the gathering and outlined the training rules. "The first and one of the biggest obstacles of the squad in the early season is the conquest of that old rival studies," declared Farrell, "and we must strive to overcome this factor which always forces us to lose some of our best prospects...