Word: loser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still lusting for political expenditures, the House next took up and passed a $110,000,000 River and Harbor improvement bill. Chief contest: acquisition by the U. S. from New York State of the Erie Canal, a money-loser. Western members, pledged to the St. Lawrence waterway, flayed this transfer as a New York plot to kill off the seaway through Canada...
...this as in most other sham encounters of the Navy, the real loser was the U. S. Treasury. Washington officials were not surprised when John A. Park, Editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) Daily Times, who "covered" the Caribbean war game for the Associated Press, wired...
...headed racquet; ball like a little baseball, covered with kid. Stanley Mortimer and Clarence C. Pell, who play together as a doubles team (TIME, Feb. 10) played each other once again in the finals of the National Singles at the Boston Tennis and Racquet Club. Figured as a sure loser because of his poorer showing this year, and because he had a harder struggle to get in the finals, Mortimer made only one point in the second game, four in the third, then began to get his serve working and to run Pell around with beautiful low drives. Pell wearied...
...second half made a score, but the big Trojan line was charging properly, Duffield's boot lifting the ball as though it were full of gas and Racehorse Russell's cleats cutting turf. Southern California 47, Pittsburgh 14 was the most decisive beating that a loser has ever taken in the Tournament of Roses...