Word: loser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schoonmaker of Yale finished the American's scoring for the first day by topping Cambridge's Jeff Robinson, 6-4, 6-0. Ed Meyer of Yale was the only loser for the defenders. He bowed to Jeff Owen of Oxford...
...home town Brockton, Mass., retired Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky Marciano, 32, never defeated in a professional bout, lay flat on his wrenched back in a hospital. The winner and new champion: Marciano's daughter Mary Ann, 3. As far as Loser Marciano could explain, he had injured his back while engaged with her in a game of catch-in which Mary Ann was the ball...
Instead, he and his planners reckoned that the death of American would benefit the company's two other magazines−which are in even worse financial trouble. "The odd thing," said Smith, "is that the least loser turned out to be the best one to pick to put out of business." Collier's (circ. 3,772,079) lost $7.5 million in 1953, $4.5 million in 1954 and $1.5 million last year, and Smith expects losses to be no lower in 1956. Woman's Home Companion (circ. 4,117,734), which was making a profit until...
...great that the exchange had to stop trading in the stock; when trading was resumed, it slid to a low of 5¾. At week's end Bellanca had rallied a bit and was up to 7¾. Stockholders had taken a bad beating, but the big loser was Albert, who had held 950,000 shares when the slide started. His paper loss: about $20 million...
...hectic duel between Cornell and Yale, in which the Big Red emerged victorious by a scant two feet, was a reversal of last week's Carnegie Cup race, when loser Cornell caught a crab at the finish. Yale apparently caught one this week about four strokes from the finish, and this possibly spelled the difference...