Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, a Crimson defeat would plunge the Big Three race into a three-way tie and would sink the varsity into fifth place and the second division of the League. Win or lose, this will have been Wilson's most successful team, and this season's record will have been the finest achievement of a Crimson five in over ten years...
...million men and women looking for work, and millions more working only part-time . . . the farmers are told to get off the land and join the ranks of the unemployed . . . bankruptcies have never been higher except during the last Republican depression. When a condition arises which causes you to lose your job you can call it a recession or a deflation or a panic. When you don't have anything to wear, anything to eat in the house, and you have some small mouths crying for a place to sleep and a place to eat, it doesn...
...minimize speed and heating. The temperature of some parts of the structure is expected to reach 1,000° F. If the temperature rises too high, the pilot may point the nose upward to get into thinner air and let the ship cool off. Gradually the X-15 will lose both speed and altitude. When it has lost enough of both, the pilot will ease it down to a skid landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., 485 miles from Wendover...
...Rhythm (Teddy Wilson; Verve). For those who like their piano well-flavored and with the angularities gone. The slower selections such as All of Me sometimes lose their way, but Pianist Wilson swings through the propulsive numbers-Sweet Georgia Brown, Smile, Limehouse Blues-with fine buoyancy and the amiable air of a man who could not utter a harsh note if he tried...
...anyone to do a good job who does not have a moneyed stake in his work. Says Getty: "I think having your own money in the business you are running makes you a lot sharper. Stockholders in my companies at least have the consolation of knowing that if they lose money, I will lose a lot more...