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Word: losers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other possibilities. President Chapman continued conferences with Chairman O'Connor, continued talking of "an adjustment, rather than a sale" of the lines. Mr. Chapman wanted to be relieved of the expensive duty of operating the largest U. S. steamship, S. S. Leviathan, which is also his largest money loser. He wanted also to be rid of the George Washington, next most costly steamer of his fleet. The Government could then sell the Republic, he suggested, leaving him the America, President Roosevelt, President Harding, and the five ships of the American Merchant Line. Last week U. S. Lines still owed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Atlantic Auction | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

Married. Max Baer, 22, heavyweight boxer, loser of a 20-rouncl decision to Paulino Uzcudun last fortnight; and Mrs. Dorothy Dunbar Wells, 38, divorced cinemactress; in Reno. Said she: 'If he insists on following the light game, I'm going to see that he gets the proper in struction." Said Mother (Dora) Baer: "Why she's old enough to be Maxie's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1931 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions, and he collects autographs. . . . His taste in the arts is unpretentious, but it is his own and not Sir Joseph Duveen's. He has a partiality for race courses, and usually contrives to put a little on the loser. When he is traveling, his aversion to solitude at breakfast taxes the ingenuity of his secretaries, who have to provide a daily quota of guests at unseasonable hours. He is a Jew, not disciplinarian in practice, and he dresses with scrupulous care. Good American as he is, he prefers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adulator | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Freshman Sextet is Loser to Yale by 3 to 1 Count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEK-END SPORT SUMMARIES | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...what a futile gesture to pretend that the liquor traffic can be stopped by putting the sponge at the mouth instead of at the source of the flow. The bootlegger's assistant who gave the police the tip will probably go free, yet he is the loser, for he has no job. The bootlegger will get a new assistant and Michigan can drink toasts freely for another six months, as all other colleges and citizens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE BLOTTERS | 2/13/1931 | See Source »

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