Word: losers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Odds favored Coach Ed Leader's boat because Yale had won all its earlier races this season while Harvard had been a consistent loser. The varsity shells pulled up to the starting line early in the evening, after Yale's freshman and Junior varsity had won their races. At the start, Harvard's stroke, Sam Drury Jr., strapping big son of the strapping big headmaster of St. Paul's School, got his beat up to 37, splashed out to a lead of three quarters of a length. Yale, pulling a shade slower, crept up. The shells...
Last week while the President waited for Congress to start its tariff battle, he went ahead with his other foreign trade plans. George N. Peek, who got out of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration because he felt that the U. S. farmer would be the loser by Brain Truster Tugwell's plans for restricting production, was brought back into the Administration fold on his own terms. He agreed to head the Export-Import Bank founded to promote Russian trade. Later he was also expected to take command of two other unformed banks, one to promote trade with Cuba, the other...
...been playing on the Lincoln's Inn team, defeated Bowditch, of the Graduates' team, before playing Howes; in the lower bracket, Hartford and Clark have successfully defeated Amos Eno, W. B. Hodges, and H. Black, and are to meet and decide the fourth place on the team; the loser of the match will play Howes for fifth place...
...suddenly Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's party when 40 members of the Nationalist Central Executive Committee arrived in Nanking last week for their fourth congress. A month ago, with six revolts crackling under him, Chiang looked like a heavy loser. Picking the key revolt, he cracked down hard on the Fukien rebels headed by smart Trinidad-born Eugene Chen and General Tsai Ting-kai's famed 19th Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been...
...Jumping up wild-eyed from his doughnut, he seized handfuls of 10,000 franc chips, flung them wildly all over the room. Ladies and gentlemen said the Casino's famed "suicide squad" (supposed to lurk behind the roulette room's mirrored doors ready to deal with any loser who shoots himself) promptly appeared and spirited the jibbering croupier away...