Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he said that "you can never be pleased when you lose," James was obviously very satisfied with his team's performance on Saturday against Colgate. Cornell had apparently won the game until, with 14 seconds remaining, Colgate tallied on a seven-yard pass play to win 14-13. "I never saw a team play so well and get licked," was his comment on the loss...
...Undergraduate Athletic Council met last night in closed session, elected officers, and passed a resolution which may have something to do with ticket booklets and people who lose them...
Cecil kept a stiff upper bill. Then he began to lose weight. Normally he tipped the scale at 3.4 or 3.8 Ibs., but he dropped to 2.3 Ibs., and his appetite for crayfish, worms, coddled eggs and frogs declined. Whether Cecil was lonely for Penelope nobody could tell, for most platypuses are somewhat phlegmatic anyway (exception: saucy Penelope, who perhaps left Cecil for that very reason). Last week Cecil died. Zoo officials performed an autopsy, concluded that old age had killed him. Sentimental newspapers (including the august New York Times) said that Cecil's heart was broken...
Nodding Old Guard. "We have encouraged a rapidly rising economy which has brought more wealth, more purchasing power, more comfort, more jobs, more homes, more luxuries, more leisure, more education and more security to our people than they have ever enjoyed before. Do we want to lose this? Do we want to let some pet or personal scheme of our own keep us from going on with the fight? Do we want to have Republicans sit on their hands as some 500,000 of them did in Wisconsin the other...
...powerful TV networks will wage the strongest campaign against the pay system. So will their admen and the moviehouse operators, who stand to lose business. They argue that pay TV will drain the free networks of talent, penalize the majority in favor of the minority that would be able to pay for a better show. Cracked CBS President Frank Stanton: "Television could not long remain half free and half...