Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valuable lefthanded addition to the Crimson varsity pitching staff. He has a good curve and fast ball, and is also effective as a batsman. Coach Samborski thought that Al Yarbro and Roy Williams, in addition to Boone, would rate a chance on the varsity mound staff, which will lose two good righthanders this June...
...During the war, the Sultan gave $4,200,000 to the British war effort, did not lose heart even when the Japanese swept down through Johore and captured Singapore. With his wife he swore off liquor until the British reconquest. When Johore was "liberated" in 1945, the joyous Sultan cried out: "Now we can break our vow. Open the champagne...
Even with the loss, the U.S. still has half the world's monetary gold. But there is a question how long the U.S. can afford to lose gold without feeling it. By law the Treasury must have gold reserves equal to 25% of the Federal Reserve's notes and deposits, or about $12 billion. It also must be able to redeem some $16.6 billion in foreign time deposits in U.S. banks, foreign-held U.S. Government securities and similar claims. In the unlikely event all foreign claimants demanded to be paid off in gold at once, the gold backing...
...enemies figured out other ways to attack him. Wholesalers who had previously helped him asked him to take his business elsewhere. Said one: "I like your business, M. Leclerc, but every time I sell you 1,000,000 francs worth of goods, I lose 30 million in canceled orders elsewhere." When things looked black, Leclerc's plight came to official attention in Paris. Economic Minister Antoine Pinay and other high officials saw in his crusade a way to raise French living standards without causing an inflationary wage increase, which they knew would only be soaked up in higher prices...
Norm Shepard has countered with Byron Johnson, a control specialist who looked good in beating Cornell last Saturday. Johnson is basically a relief pitcher, with a tendency to lose his effectiveness in the late innings when he starts, and Shepard had hoped to hold him in reserve for relief work against Yale...