Word: losers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas Lipton, bigger than the one he would have got if he had won." When the trophy was presented, a substitution had been made for the inscription Will Rogers had suggested: "To possibly the world's worst yacht builder but absolutely the world's most cheerful loser...
...Cheerful Loser Lipton, who left $4,000,000 to the poor of Glasgow in his will, was no loser at all on his own terms. At a dinner speech delivered during the height of his career, he succinctly summed up his philosophy: "A man may have many friends, but he will find none so steadfast, so constant, so ready to respond to his wants, so capable of pushing him ahead, as a little leather-covered book with the name of a bank on its cover...