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Word: loses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms of economy; for the AFROTC's stake in the Harvard program transcends money alone. Not only the crying need for additional younger fliers, but the vast potential influence of the Harvard unit, make it essential that the Pentagon reconsider the new policy, ensuring that it does not lose more than it grains by dissolving the local unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keep 'Em Flying | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

...supposed to be Czech; she, cockney--they hurry about the stage a if they were really not more than sixty years old, and they argue about what code to use in their mind reading act as thought the subject held great interest. But, in the end, the Lunts too lose out to mediocre writing. The backstage life of vaudeville performers has so often been the subject of comedies that music hall actors are almost as stereotyped as movie cowboys by now. Involving the mind readers in a melodramatic plot fails to make them seem original...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Great Sebastians | 12/8/1955 | See Source »

...duty. "The excitement doesn't leave you keyed up, but just exhausted," he says. "Seeing people in agony, you think that you're as far above animals as they are above inert matter. The suffering person has no defenses left, his inhibitions are gone. Often he seems to lose the dignity that makes him human...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: 'Decline from Ivory Tower' Spurs Hospital Volunteers | 12/2/1955 | See Source »

...revelation of the stages in the disintegration of Macbeth's character. In any production of the play, the director and cast should consciously direct their full attention to this issue, or they may be tempted to over-exploit the dramatic effects offered by the play, and in so doing lose sight of its central movement...

Author: By John A. Pork, | Title: Macbeth | 11/30/1955 | See Source »

...defeated his opponent Olmstead 9-15, 15,10, 15-17, 15-8, 15-11, while Pete Milton at three took Webb 12-15, 15-5, 15-11, 14-16, 15-5. Lee Folger beat Lee in straight games, 15-3, 15-1, 15-4. The only Crimson player to lose was Charlie McVegh, who lost to Riley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squashmen Subdue University Club 4-1 | 11/30/1955 | See Source »

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