Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smugness which has enveloped scientific development in this country can no longer be tolerated. In the conquest of space, we ran a losing race, and did not even lose it well. In all probability our defeat is less the fault of the runners than of their trainers and of the crowd...
...girls had been to high school and they knew Ghengis Khan hadn't been defeated by a bunch of Eskimos, so I had to figure out a way for Nanook to lose the battle. 'Well,' I'd tell them, 'You know how much dust there is in China. Nanook's army just couldn't take it and they all got tuberculosis. It was a terrible slaughter from which the Eskimo civilization never recovered.' This satisfied most of them and when I mentioned the names of one or two professors working on the translation they practically worshipped me. Intellectually, you might...
Lindstrom was philosophical in the dressing room. "I guess the Good Lord just couldn't stand to see Walter Johnson lose again," he said...
Sigrid von Keyserling '60, student head of hockey at Radcliffe, refused to predict the outcome of today's game, but commented, "Win or lose, we expect some interesting collisions...
...wages and prices go up more easily than they go down. "Wages in the American economy do not readily drop in contracting industries" because of union strength. Moreover, Slichter argues, when general business threatens to contract and drop prices, antirecession measures are applied by Government before falling prices lose all the ground gained in the last boom, giving a higher jumping-off point for the next rise...