Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treasury come to lose prestige in a generation when it handled more money than Andrew Jackson-or Theodore Roosevelt-could have conceived of? One significant answer: a government that accepts private business as the mainspring of the economy can use the Treasury as a regulator, but a government that considers itself the economic mainspring will put its economic power in the hands of the planners and managers. The passage of the Government's fiscal power from the Treasury to Harry Hopkins of WPA and Harold Ickes of PWA symbolized a whole new philosophy of the relation of government...
Dancers from All Over. Ever since he graduated from Harvard (1930), Lincoln Kirstein has been pushing his close-cropped head and broad shoulders into the arts. As the son of the board chairman of Boston's Filene's department store, he could afford to lose money on his ventures, and often did. Among them the expensive, respected but short-lived highbrow magazine Hound & Horn, Harvard's Society for Contemporary Art a novel, a book of poems, a scholarly book on the dance...
...moment we start guarding our tooth bushes with the same real with which we guard on wings. We will have certainly lose less toothbrushes, but almost as certainly more diamonds...
Meanwhile, Selective Service officials indicated yesterday that deferment laws for students who marry in college will probably be changed so that on graduation they will lose their deferment status...
...said, both in the Kansas article and in the letter to the CRIMSON from Mr. Sutherland and myself, there is no legal privilege to shield one's friends by silence. One who is asked to testify to matters which actually tend to show this guilt does not lose the immunity he would have available, by reason of the fact that his claim of the privilege would not only protect him, but would incidentally protect his associates as well. But no matter what a man's code of friendship may be. If he swears that an answer will feud to incriminate...