Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state aid, which is $2,000,000 a year, and 20% of the school's budget. But we also get $2,000,000 a year from the Federal Government to educate the children of Navy people. If they tell us to integrate and we don't, we lose their $2,000,000. So it's hell if we do and hell...
...floor-shaking from the chorus, Al Capp's comic-strip community bounces to life. At other times, behind musicomedy goggles, Capp's satiric eye notes and needles skulduggery, stupidity, conformity. But there are numerous occasions when the Capp menagerie, let out of their neat newspaper cages, noisily lose their way stumbling,in too many directions...
...critical eye the Blue starting team offers little encouragement. Whereas one can point to the Crimson ends and say "weakness," there are no comparable weak spots in the Eli roster. It is a team led by some very determined seniors-men who have seen the Blue consistently lose fine opportunities in their previous three years. Although they were undefeated in their freshman year, these seniors saw the Elis blow the Big Three title by losing to Harvard...
Butler, though he has established a useful position for the future, is still in no position to challenge Eden for the leadership, knows that he would lose if he did. Said one Conservative old hand: "You must understand how strong is the spirit of unity among Conservative leaders. We remember how much damage has been done by splits in our leadership-Fox and Pitt, Peel and Disraeli. The only reasonable way for Butler to express such differences as he may have with Eden is within the party, within the government. That way, he may have some influence and only that...
...surprising fact was that the ban on trading had not been necessary to protect the unknowing American investors. Few, if any, of them had lost money on the stock. In fact, they could have made a lot. Those who had lost money-and stood to lose a great deal more-were the hardeyed professional speculators on Toronto's Bay Street who had committed one of the mortal sins of speculation: they had been "caught short" in Chatco stock. They had sold thousands of shares of the stock in hopes that it would fall and they could pick...