Word: losers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thatched Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, richest of U. S. publishing merchandisers, marched up from Philadelphia and bought it from a Wall Street syndicate which had acquired it only the year before from Morgan Partner Lamont. For years the Evening Post, for all its fine tradition, had been a money-loser. Briefly after 1923 it looked as if Publisher Curtis might succeed where Wall Street had failed. Through Son-in-law John Charles Martin, Mr. Curtis poured money lavishly into the Evening Post, gave it the finest new plant in the city. Socialite Julian Starkweather Mason was hired as editor...
...recognized by most members of the faculty, the very brevity of the hour examination renders it a ridiculously inadequate gauge of scholastic calibre. It has become a more battle of wits between platform and bench, a futile and expensive bout of mental gymnastics from which both parties emerge the loser...
...knockout. But Carnera could neither knock his man down nor knock the stubborn, gold-toothed smile from his bloody face. By the end of the fight the early cheers for "Il Campionissimo" were nearly drowned by hoots, catcalls and loud cries of "Bravo Paulino" for the game loser...
...Twice it let Captain Bob Lassiter lead long marches down the field for touchdowns against Brown. But Yale suffered many a scare. Three times Brown ripped deep into Yale territory, once to the 1-yd. line. The fourth time, in the last period, Brown pounded through for a game loser's finish...
...romantic Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New York World-Telegram likes to back lost causes, pat underdogs. Some two months ago he hatched a plan which looked like a sure loser-the forming of a New York newspapermen's guild. He well knew the standard arguments against it. Out of many similar attempts in the past, only those in Milwaukee and Scranton, Pa. had effectively survived. Publishers were hostile. Newsmen, especially in New York, were too proud, too individualistic, too footloose to sign lodge cards. But that was just the kind of set-up that Colyumist Broun likes...