Word: loser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once upon a time in the early period of the stone age, there were two men who were about to run a race, with a beautiful leopard-skin-clothed girl as prize for the winner, and death,--instant and unwavering,--for the loser. As the language in those days was not quite as it is now, the man to the right was called X; and the man to the left was Y. The race began with Y slightly ahead but with X pounding steadily onward. At the half mile mark, he passed, retained his lead until...
...admired the dauntless courage of the Englishmen who attempted Mt. Everest, may yet pause to reconsider their hopes for those men's eventual success. The Anglo-Saxon race has the fine courage and the strong physique to undertake such feats. But is the world, after all, not the loser thereby? Would it not be better to leave these attempts to the Latin races? These feats are of little practical value; they are in the nature of magnificent gestures made by men in the face of the eternal. Are not the Latin races better equipped to enjoy such gestures...
...both matches at the end of the third game it looked as if the loser were the stronger, but they met such strong opposition in the fourth game, that they were forced to relinquish their temporary advantage...
...Cummins of Iowa, President pro tem, of the Senate, was the loser of the Chairmanship. Mr. Cummins, who came to Congress in 1908 as a radical and foe of the railways, who fought side by side with LaFollette and Borah in the insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated by the votes of his former comrades. Mr. LaFollette swung his radical group into the Democratic column, carrying with him three other Republicans, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier, and the two Farmer-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. Bruce of Maryland, lone Democrat, clung to Cummins to the last. The final vote was : Smith...
...magnified technicality may sever racing relations between American and Canadian fishermen off Halifax. Though there was no question of her superiority when the boats crossed the finish line, Bluenose, Canadian defender, was declared by the judges loser in the second of three races scheduled with Columbia, American challenger, because Skipper Angus Walters failed to pass the Lighthouse Bank buoy to seaward...