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Word: loses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal which is part of a comprehensive tax bill now before the House Ways and Means Committee. "A lot of our boys stop work when they hit the $599 limit." Stop work when they hit the $599 limit." If a student makes $600 during a year his parents lose him as a dependent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monro Lauds House Bill To End Students' Taxes | 12/2/1953 | See Source »

...Press, however, is more than a big business, and is not afraid to turn out books that lose money. But, says Secretary A.L.P. Norrington, "if you're going to drop ?500, it had better be a good book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Grandfather | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

McCurdy hopes the Yardlings will be of help next fall, since he will lose the bulk of his varsity by graduation. Out of the seven men taken to the Heptagonals, only three will be back in '54. Of the "scoring five" the Crimson will lose three: the first and second finishes, Hal Gerry and Hubie Maguire, and the three-four alternate, Emil San Soucie. "1957 will make or break the varsity next year," said McCurdy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/25/1953 | See Source »

17th Century France and Martinique (Marie of the Isles, by Robert Gaillard; A. A. Wyn). The story of a single-minded girl who gets two doctors to certify that she still has her virginity so that she can lose it to the man she loves; told with a strong French accent on sex and sadism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Choice of the Past | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...that this would be "to confess to having been the King's harlot this 24 years." After Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church and married Anne Boleyn, Katherine instructed adolescent Mary: "[Obey] the King your father in everything, save only that you will not offend God and lose your own soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloody Mary | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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