Word: loses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Universal voices echo, too, for the Civil War was a universal war-Abraham Lincoln, man of anguish, defining the issue: "We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth"; Ulysses Grant, man of victory, summing up: "Our republican institutions were regarded as experiments up to the breaking out of the rebellion, and monarchical Europe generally believed that our republic was a rope of sand . . . Now it has shown itself capable of dealing with one of the greatest wars that was ever made, and our people have proven"themselves...
...many regulations that the Bruins were 1) put on three years' probation, 2) forbidden to participate in conference or N.C.A.A. championships, and 3) deprived of their Rose Bowl receipts to the tune of some $80,000. All last year's football players, freshman and varsity alike, lose a year of eligibility unless they can prove that they have not been paid under the table. And because Chancellor Raymond B. Allen did not cooperate with the conference investigation. U.C.L.A. was fined an additional $15,000. Because of the relatively minor transgression of its careless campus labor program for athletes...
...Lose...
Since the organizers of the reunion are all Harvardmen, they have figured out everything. If rain should kill "jamboree" proceedings, Kismet will be given in the afternoon instead of the evening, as is planned for fair weather. "That way, how can we lose?" asks Pliny Jewell, Jr., optimistic reunion committee chairman...
...public utterances. It may evaluate Russia as it sees fit, but to the world, the United States must appear hopeful, creative, positive, and always willing to meet the Kremlin half-way. Unless the U.S. consciously attempts to create this attitude, the country may too soon learn how to lose friends and alienate people...