Word: loser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second class mail, which is the big loser ($74,000,000), consists of newspapers and magazines. On the face of it, this mail is paid for at ridiculously low rates. It constitutes by weight nearly 25% of the matter handled and furnishes only a little more than 5% of the revenue received. It is a part of public policy, however, to grant specially low rates as a subsidy to the press to aid in the dissemination of truth and journalism and all the other benefits of the printed word...
...each event, the national anthem of the country which had won, and of running up the flags of the countries taking the first three places. Now that is a pleasant courtesy to the winners, but it becomes an awful bore to the spectators, whether they be winners or losers. More than that, it rubs in the victory just that much harder, and emphasizes the question of differing nationality just that much more. So long, as there is a mob psychology to bring a catch to the throat as the national emblem is raised on its staff and the national anthem...
...University has no excuses or explanations. It steps aside for the victors, and concludes its sincere congratulations with the loser's toast--"L'Avenir, Messieurs...
Lodge, the winner, and Lodge, the loser, died when the Party which he had served was going on into new paths...
...college during the past week, reducing to a minimum the former feeling of over-confidence. The Crimson has subdued the Orange and Black but once since 1916, and that in the memorable struggle at Palmer Stadium last year. In the other four encounters, the University has been a loser twice, and earned a tie twice...