Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvards athletic teams turned in 16 victories last weekend and didn't lose once in varsity, J.V., or Freshman competition...
...then there were lots of unanswered questions. And no one was more interested in the answers than the Internal Revenue Service, which stood to lose some $44,000 of the winner's loot. For where a single ticket holder (estimated on a fairly shortsighted basis to have a wife, two children and no outside income) would take no more than the standard 10% deduction and pay a whopping $67,000 tax, a seven-way split figured on the same basis would net each partner $18,890 and leave the Government a measly $23,000 total. Said the Revenooers last...
...many businessmen, one good example of professionalism was Johnson's success in settling the long and complicated railroad labor hassle-and doing so without visibly bruising anyone. About 5,000 railroad firemen stand to lose their jobs immediately under terms of the Compulsory Arbitration law, whose constitutionality was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, but most will get severance checks or other railroad jobs. Labor chiefs applauded Johnson's concern for the displaced workers, and businessmen generally agreed that he had not overstepped the bounds of collective bargaining by persuasively pushing the settlement. Says Santa...
...promised to call next October. That is the latest legal date, and in choosing it Sir Alec Douglas Home has given up the advantage of surprise that the party in power usually holds. But he has very good reason to do so: everyone concedes that the Tories would lose badly in June, the only other possible date. Sir Alec, now 60 years old, cannot afford to give up. He knows that while there will always be a Tory party, there will be no place for him as leader if Labour takes over...
...G.B.L. competition, Harvard, Boston College, and Northeastern are currently tied for first with one loss apiece. The game with Brandels is the Crimson's last, and if either B.C. or Northeastern finishes without another loss, Harvard will lose the title on a percentage basis...