Word: losings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wears shorts to avoid wear & tear on his trouser knees, will be watched by the Davis Cup Committee more closely than ever this year. Among the tennis giants he has harassed into submission are Jack Crawford, Adrian Quist and Jack Bromwich, the three formidable Australians who (unless they lose the Interzone final) will face the U. S. team in the Davis Cup challenge round at Philadelphia on September...
...Germany or another power moves in. According to Admiral Byrd: "No foreign expedition has so much as looked upon [it]. . . . We have penetrated it ... lived in it ... built in it." The U. S. was laggard in claiming its discoveries in the Arctic and Pacific he argued: let it not lose this last rich find in a shrinking world...
...college trustees, appointed by conservative, Democratic Governor Clarence D. Martin, found the charges false. Thereupon Sefrit's cronies went to see the Governor. The Governor summoned his trustees. Six weeks ago the trustees, without public explanation, announced that President Fisher would lose his job in August...
...waste all muscles controlled by the diseased cord. First to degenerate are the tough fibres in the ball of the thumb. Gradually the other fingers shrivel into a typical "clawhand." Then the arm muscles slowly waste away. After the disease has been intrenched for many years, a patient may lose control of his trunk, face and leg muscles. At the end, he may be little more than skin & bone...
...Naval Ministry scoffed at suggestions that the loss of the Phenix was something more than an accident. French newspapers were not prepared to dismiss the possibility of sabotage so lightly, asked: "Can this be the law of averages-that three democracies lose three submarines in less than a month?" Editorialized the Communist newspaper L'Humanite: "This commands suspicion...