Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the tax. The existing system of mimeographed forms signed by students and counter-signed by instructors is absurdly awkward. The forms insure that only "required" textbooks are exempted from the tax. The cost of processing those mounds of paper will surely exceed the revenues which the state would lose without this control. And one can only shudder at the thought of the confusion which will take place at every cash-register at every bookstore in Cambridge when the next semester begins...
...tennis team squeaked past Williams, 5-4, Saturday, in what almost turned out to be a major upset. With the match tied at 4-4 it looked as though Crimson sophomores Bernie Adelsberg and Jose Gonzales might lose the second doubles match. They steadied, however, and pulled out the only three-set match of the afternoon...
While Natalie's acting charms can break a clock, her arrival here in Cambridge will only make us lose an hour. She will arrive at Logan at 1:17 p.m. where she will be greeted by twenty Lampoon motorcycles in black tie. Don't let the display dazzle you -- be sure to set your clocks ahead an hour tonight...
Last September, Seattle's Boeing Co., having spent $16 million to design a giant jet military transport, lost the $2 billion Pentagon contract to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and its C-5A. Despite the staggering blow, Boeing's President William Allen managed to sound philosophical. "When you lose," he said, "you look for other opportunities...
...mistaken for a show's out-of-town run-through on a night when most of the original cast have been laid low by a virus; yet the film has a certain economy-style charm and a cheeky spirit of what-the-hell-have-we-got-to-lose-for even on stage, Stop the World was never more than a flimsy improvisation on which to hang a saucy, tuneful score...