Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to an Administrative official, the University asked Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 and City Manager John J. Curry '19 whether the city could afford to lose Brennan. The answer from City Hall was "No," and so the University started to look elsewhere. A Boston newspaper said that Harvard approached the Chief of Police, who then declined the offer...
Shima's background became known only when the paper, impressed by his "great promise," decided to learn more about its hit writer. While his verses in translation lose the rhythm and most of the overtones and associations that the original words have for the Japanese, they nonetheless give vivid insights into an unhappy past and remorseful present. After a lonely childhood, Shima fell in with young hoodlums, served two years in reformatories and jails before stabbing a farmwife to death during a 1959 burglary. He writes...
...Lose a Fortune. Senefelder gave up playwriting to devote himself to his invention. The King of Bavaria gave him a patent, but Senefelder decided to go after greater profits in London. There, unhappily, he tried for a ?3.000 prize donated by George III for a design for a dirigible. He failed to win the prize, sold his lithography patent for a pittance, and left for Vienna. He promptly ran afoul of the Viennese authorities by boasting that he had discovered a way of lithographing bank notes. He went home to Munich only to find that his brothers, to whom...
Child actors are apt to lose the natural graces and harum-scarum spontaneity of real children, but Debbie Scott, Susan Towers and Philip Visco are unselfconsciously perfect, and except for a last-minute flurry of sentimentality, so is the play...
Some sound advice came from a member of the class of 1929, who said that, regardless of whether the college likes it or not, its main image in the press is through its activity on the football field. Brown would not lose much by dropping football, he said, but as long as the college fielded a team it ought to improve it or play teams closer to its level. "We are suggesting to the millions who read about our repeated failures every fall that, if a university can do anything this poorly, it might be equally careless and inexpert...