Word: loss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading radio manufacturers has just issued an appeal through the newspapers urging the public to protest against the plan to prohibit broadcasting of professional boxing matches and baseball games, which is being seriously considered by the magnates of these sports. Apart from the loss of enjoyment to thousands of people who could not possibly attend the games in person, such a course reveals an uneasiness in the minds of the promoters that seems strangely inconsistent with the reports of clamorous demands for seats at the coming World's Series and of a very gratifying gate at a fight between contenders...
...fields of activity is barred. If listeners-in cannot hear the broadcasting of a big-league game, instead of selling their sets and going to see the game they will tune in on the amateur tennis or polo match which the broadcasters will substitute. There would be loss all around, for at present during a large part of the year amateur sports have neither the facilities nor often the desire to accommodate large number of people and if they made arrangements to do so it would be with results only detrimental to themselves. Professional sports have a useful role...
Handicapped by the loss of many of last year's men but with an exceptionally large number of candidates to draw from, Coach Carr is getting soccer practice under way in preparation for a stiff schedule of 10 games...
...loss of W. D. Carter '31, who is on leave of absence will be felt keenly at center half back for this position promises to be the most difficult to fill this fall. W. D. Vogel '30, who played center forward last season, is also on leave this year but it is expected that the forward line may be filled by candidates from the 1932 team...
...although he had adopted the subterfuge of shaving off his mustache. Arrested, he admitted his guilt, said that he expected to spend the rest of his life in jail, maintained that it was better for the depositors of the six Manhattan banks to lose $500,000 than for that loss to be concentrated on the depositors of Telluride. It was believed also that he had a grudge against Eastern capitalists who had purchased and closed down (to eliminate competition) various mines in the Telluride district...