Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Do not worry about losing Mr. Henderson's subscription. You will gain more readers by your courage and decency than you will lose. Certainly I will do everything in my power to induce more intelligent readers to subscribe to TIME because of your reply to Mr. Henderson...
...must not, in times of peace, permit ourselves to lose any part from this structure of patriotic unity. I make no plea for leniency toward those who are criminal or vicious, are open enemies of society and are not prepared to accept the true standards of our citizenship. By tolerance I do not mean indifference to evil. I mean respect for different kinds of good. Whether one traces his Americanism back two or three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine...
...Manchester, N. H., lives an elderly policeman named John Smith. He was manager of the Norfolk Club in a Virginia minor league when Mathewson, a big boy, knock-kneed and ungainly, was starting with a team from Taunton. John Smith saw him pitch a game in Manchester and lose 6-5 and signed him for a season with the Virginia club...
...offered a choice between science with its unanimous acceptance of the evolutionary principle, and religion with its necessary appeal to things unseen and unprovable, they are much more likely to abandon religion than to abandon science, and if such a choice is forced on the people, the churches will lose many of their best educated young people, those upon whom they must depend for leadership in the coming years...
...Even in evolution is it true that he who would save his life must lose it. Here if nowhere else, do the facts of evolution lead the man of science to stand shoulder to shoulder with the man of religion...