Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infrequently, and are of the crudest armchair variety. One of them, written after the Eisenhower break in the Stock Market, predicted an oncoming United States depression with the profound conclusion that "It need not be pointed out that if this nation suffered another depression of serious proportions, it would lose considerable influence in its effort to woo the world to capitalism instead of communism...
...Student Council this year has changed the sequence of the elections, Levin said, so that the choice for a few positions will precede the general council elections to be held on Dec. 9. Those who lose in the preliminary elections may still run as House representatives, if they choose...
...What civilized person could ever imagine those nice Americans devising such a fiendish scheme as the Morgenthau plan . . ." Faces dimmed. ". . . to reduce Germany to an agrarian country? Such childish nonsensel! Ach ja, Hitler did lose the war for us, but did we not suffer enough? I am no Nazi . . ." Nodding heads in the group indicated that no one was, or indeed ever had been, a Nazi. ". . . but trying to force your Democracy on us like an insect spray, ja it was too silly...
Sandwiched between "Harvardiana" and the "New Locomotive," varsity football captain Bill Meigs told a cheering crowd that "there are 15 seniors on this team who have never lost to Yale, and they're not going to lose on Saturday...
...this situation changed radically after 1914. The increased activity of the State Department since then has been reflected in the work of the Historical Division. For the first time, it started to lose ground to the increasing mass of factual material which it was expected to systematize and to make public. World War II and the Korean conflict added to the burden. Consequently, the Division is now 15 years behind in its work, the most recent volume on foreign relations dealing with...