Word: losings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When an airplane climbs so steeply that its wings lose lifting power, it stalls, falls. Last week Langley Field engineers introduced a gadget that senses the loss of lift, blows a horn to warn the pilot...
While they are in power, Europe's dictators, premiers and tycoons seem to be sitting solidly on their thrones, or behind them. Just how rapidly they can lose their strength, how fast and far they can fall, and how quickly they can be forgotten, is demonstrated in Isaac Marcosson's reminiscences of Europe's heroes of 15 years ago. The work of a veteran Sateve-post contributor, Turbulent Years' 18 chapters include sketches of Trotsky, Sun Yatsen, Calles, an essay on dictators in general, as Marcosson saw them. Some samples...
...these games no one has left the field doubting for a moment which team was the better coached. Coach Harlow is the finest type of Harvard man, and Harvard has adopted him for her own. Those on his team look up to "Dick" so much that when they lose, they feel that they have let him down; this fact makes the loss to Army even harder to bear. For Harlow's men to see a wholly-earned victory wrenched from their grasp Saturday was the acme of injustice...
...much help from CBS, Messieurs Friedland and van Ackere finished their series. Their recordings, packed with fascinating fictions as well as facts, pictured the U. S. just about as their compatriots at home picture it. The editors explained that too many variations from preconceptions would merely make their compatriots lose faith in the programs. In accordance with the French idea of the U. S., everything moves at a dizzy pace. Efficiency, machinery, wealth are stressed...
Blind alleys are familiar streets in literary biographies. Writers seem to lose their way just when they ought to be going strong-as Melville, after writing Moby Dick, turned out the weird, confused, unreadable Pierre. Sometimes writers escape quickly; sometimes, like Melville, they are gone for good. But when a writer begins to follow his genius up a blind alley, all that admirers can do is wait and hope they will return together...