Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most little girls get over the nursing craze about the time their brothers lose the yen to drive locomotives or airplanes. When they are old enough to go into nursing school, most of them are looking for something more glamorous. "There's no glamour in nursing," says a nursing chief in Houston. "The girls have to come into it with a spirit of dedication, and enjoy it because it's a tough job well done." One-third of all U.S. student nurses drop out without finishing the course, many of them because they find it too tough...
...deal was that Millionaires Murchison and Richardson are now in a position to make millions without taking a penny out of their own pockets. With the option of selling back the stock in six months at $25 a share (the price they paid for it), they cannot lose if it goes down, will get the profits if it goes up. Thus, Alleghany takes all the risk and none of the profits, unless the two shrewd Texans voluntarily cut in the company. Said Murchison: "If the stock is selling at 30 or 35, we will hold...
...Halle's statement, marked by the Annotator: "Henry borne at Monmouth shall small tyme reigne and muche get, & Henry born at Wyndsore shall long reigne and all lese . .." Henry VI: "Henry born at Monmouth shall win all/ And Henry born at Windsor lose...
Boston's late Frederic C. Dumaine once advised his hockey-playing son: "If a man hurts you on that rink, don't lose your temper. Give it to him cleanly, according to the rules, but give it to him.'' Young Frederic C. Dumaine Jr. never forgot that advice. Now 51 and head of the family's $28 million New England empire, Buck Dumaine last week was in the toughest scrap of his life, fighting according to the rules but as hard as he could...
...Lodger," a lawyer sells his youth, career and principles to marry for money, only to learn that everyone despises him. In "A Visit to Friends," a Moscow lawyer visits the ancestral estate of childhood friends and learns, in conversations reminiscent of The Cherry Orchard, that they are doomed to lose the estate as they dribble away their days in futility, hoping vainly for a miracle...