Word: losings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From then on the Engineers and New Jersey boats began to wobble and lose ground rapidly. Tech put it up to 32 at the mile and Rutgers soon afterwards to 35, but Chace had it steadied at 30 with a length and a half of open water to spare...
...companies offered bids under these circumstances for the Government's cement contract for the next four months (3,000,000 bbl.). The Treasury was pleased to find all the bids different; the industry was upset because each maker knows that if his bid is too high he will lose out to some competitor for the Government's business, if too low it will irk his commercial customers still buying under the old system...
...defeated by Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill, who thus becomes the twelfth female M.P. Dr. Summerskill had fought her Labor campaign as much as possible in the vein of defending handsome young Conservative Anthony Eden against the Conservative Prime Minister, so His Majesty's Government were chagrined to lose this bye-election...
...from adding to their knowledge in college, .many students actually lose ground. Given the same test at two-year intervals, 15% of the students knew less at the end of the two years than they did before. In 20 of 33 colleges the average student had gone backwards in mathematics...
...Liechtenstein now becomes part of Greater Germany the inhabitants will almost certainly lose their most cherished liberty-freedom from taxation. The ruling Prince, having long footed the Government bills himself, discovered in 1926 a way to relieve the strain on his own diminished income. Watching the rise of confiscatory taxes on corporations, wealthy citizens in Europe and the U. S., he smartly invited foreign corporations and private citizens to incorporate in his state and pay minimum taxes. Since then these foreigner-paid taxes, small as they are, have paid some 45% of the nation's expenses. The Liechtenstein family...