Word: loser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Girls. Also at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the girls' national championship was decided, in favor of Helen Hooker of Greenwich, Conn. Betty Hilleary of Philadelphia, the loser, made a better effort than 6-1, 6-0 indicates. Twelve of the winner's games went to deuce...
...Allies made vigorous fight to keep the capitulations, the financial and economic clauses in the Treaty, but were finally forced to discard even these claims. The result of the second session shows plainly that Turkey, the loser in the Great War, won a great diplomatic victory over all her enemies who were combined against her. It is difficult to estimate the value of the Near Eastern Peace, which is after all only a technical settlement. One thing certain is that Turkey is once more a geographical entity and a Power to be dealt with in Near Eastern problems. The Treaty...
...passport granted by its government, but he is personally an anti-Bolshevik and takes no part in politics. The French consul was more of a realist, and the professor will probably land at Cherbourg and go home, but not via Edinburgh. Britain, and not Pavloff, will be the loser. Commenting on his trying experiences, Dr. Pavloff said he was going back to Russia, where there is "law and order...
...result of the tangle is that the immigrant appears to be the chief loser...
...called the English poor sports. Hagen recently lost the British open golf championship by one stroke. By implication he attributed the loss to the English ruling against "punched" clubs on the eve of the Troon Tournament. Apparently, Hagen has not learned that reticence is synonymous with the graceful loser. His characterization of the English carries a back spin...