Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purely imaginative (or purely imitative, as it often turns out) compels the reformer to labor under difficulties. The literary journal appears to be poaching or attempting to coerce unwilling attention if it thrusts its finger into the general pie. Tradition is against it, and it is likely to lose credit for the good it may actually accomplish. Yet to coerce unwilling attention may be the part of honest service, and the original tradition, in the case of the Advocate, is richly on the side of reform and ardent, crusading, conducted with wisdom, foresight, and study...
...been abundant, of the system, of the coaches, and of the material. This year the pre-Yale races have been lost to opponents whose eights were by no means remarkable. And to top it off, the sport writers have already begun to count the lengths by which Harvard will lose at New London, and the Yale eight is already dubbed "the wonder crew which comes once in a blue moon." Perhaps never before was a University crew up against such a severe task as confronts Captain Henry...
...Said Eduard after the conclave: "Our country is rich and prosperous and we, therefore, have everything to lose and nothing to gain by any change. The object of my policy, therefore, has been to consolidate our present position by working hard to create a network of treaties around Czecho-Slovakia to guarantee her against any setting aside of the existing peace treaties which lay down her independence and status...
...principal points made in the remaining articles of the Treaty: "Nationals of Bulgaria or of the U. S. are not to lose their nationality by naturalization in time of war; naturalized persons returning to their country of origin are not to be punished for the initial act of emigration, nor for the failure to answer calls for military service accruing after bonafide residence was established in the country of naturalization ; naturalized persons returning to their country of origin with intent not to return to that in which they were naturalized are to be considered to have renounced their naturalization...
According to investigations made by the Pittsburgh Experiment Station of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, a man in a state of rest and in still air cannot endure indefinitely a temperature higher than 90° F. with 100% relative humidity. Stout men subjected to uncomfortably hot temperatures lose more weight than thin men, but, as a rule, can stand high temperatures longer and complain less of exhaustion...