Word: losings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S hope: that Dumpy and Mrs. Stiles never lose faith in each other...
...This situation will not be solved by hanging mottoes of fair play on the four posts of the ring. . . . We should not blame great industrial organizers. In a hard-played game, an aggressive team will go as far as the imposition of penalties permits, or else it will lose to the team which does. . . . Today there are laws going in all sorts of directions which need to be reconciled. 'There are new problems which need more immediate attention. That is the function of the monopoly committee...
...society for prevention of war-and because Virginia Woolf is not very sure how societies go about preventing war, it has no conditions at all. She sympathizes, naturally, with its aims. But to the invitation to join its ranks she answers No. Women are different from men; they would lose their identity by going into bi-sexual societies. They must form instead a "Society of Outsiders," with no constitution or meetings, with a passive attitude towards patriotism and complete indifference to the warlike virtues...
...tune-up before the U. S. championships, in order to scout the Australians. For cocky young Bobby Riggs, who has won 14 U. S. tournaments this year, was smarting under Don Budge's recent innuendo (that, if he were chosen for the Davis Cup team, he would probably lose both his singles matches...
...House of Delegates, and was thinking of running for Governor. Back from the War, he went into partnership with seasoned Philip P. Steptoe of Clarksburg, soon was earning $40,000 a year or better in corporate practice. As the money rolled in, he began to put on weight, lose his hair but not his vim, ease up on poker and take to golf. He could afford to play politics without running for office. By picking his candidates after the primaries, he steered clear of West Virginia's bitter Democratic feuds, thus stands well with such enemies as Senators Matthew...