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Word: losings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that he is also ambitious merely adds to his difficulties. He has yet to face the question of whether he can preserve order in his State without 1) putting Labor in a position where it will inevitably lose its strike or 2) using the power of the State to shut the steel mills at other times than when it can be excused by the necessity of preventing bloodshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Labor Governor | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...Lords, 62-year-old Arthur Annis was found dead in his London office. He had been political agent for the Conservative Association of Bewdley, had managed Stanley Baldwin's election campaigns in that constituency for 28 years. Day prior. Arthur Annis had remarked to a friend: "When you lose your boss after 28 years you realize you're getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Retirement for Two | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...only at Chicago in 1933 but again in last year's Masters' tournament at Augusta, Guldahl had enjoyed a comparable situation and contrived to lose. Needing only to come home in par to win by two strokes he now made it look as though he would lose again when he pushed his drive into the rough on the tenth, took a bogey 5, and three-putted the next green. But this time, with the gallery waiting for Guldahl's game to crack wide open, it did the opposite. So calm that he appeared preoccupied, he got birdies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Answer at Oakland Hills | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...acceleration which the human body can stand, and that in rocketing between America and Europe we will accelerate halfway across the ocean and decelerate during the other half. Or, he might even point his rocket toward another planet and, without regard to fuel supply, landing facilities, or Professor Goddard, lose himself in interstellar space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lost in Space | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...ribbons, but their parents Oliva & Elzire Dionne, their five older brothers and sisters who are to eat most of the birthday cake, will be obliged to wear white cotton hospital gowns over their everyday clothes. If any one of them has a cold or even looks ill, he will lose his invitation to the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: . . . And How They Grew | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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