Word: losings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only seen but heard. At such dinners he usually makes an extemporaneous speech, and so he did last week. The Justice gave a general discourse on good citizenship and the problems of government. In the course of it he referred to the fact that some attorneys complain, when they lose a case, that the Court has been unfair. Said he while an Associated Press Phi Delta Theta took notes...
...enthusiastic and willing to spend himself in an effort to bring into focus a half-year's work. His summary must be a happy synthesis of facts and significant trends. If he shirks, if he warms over a few cold lecture notes, he will lose his own audience and do much to blight a slowly-blossoming system...
...member of the Council who is put on probation by the College for any reason will automatically lose his membership in the Council, and will not regain his membership under any circumstances...
...between Captain Jim Gaffney of the football team and Yarding Tudor Gardiner, which the latter won by excellent boxing coupled with the ability to withstand the sledge-hammer slugging of the pigskin handler, Gaffney, pounding the Freshman wildly in the first round, was tamed later when Gardiner helped him lose his enthusiasm by stepping inside smashing books and belaboring the gridman's head...
Thus last week no transatlantic line had its "Coronation sailings" yet solidly booked in any class. Out-of-town agents, by paying a small deposit, are permitted to book and hold any number of cabins in dummy names until about ten days before a given ship sails, do not lose this deposit in any case as it stands to their credit if the reservations are given up. This sort of speculative booking had by last week pretty well "filled" the Queen Mary, Paris and Bremen-all of which sail from Manhattan at just the right time for last-minute Coronation...