Word: loss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...esteemed contemporary. The Evening World, calls attention to a state of football affairs that is indeed curious. "Harvard won again this year," it says, "and everywhere this is regarded as air upset, as the dope had favored Yale Why? One is at a loss to think. The dope always favors Yale, so much so that the sports writers would appear to have a Yale complex. Yet the hard facts are that since 1906, when the forward pass was introduced and the modern game may be said to have started, Harvard has won eleven games and Yale only eight. Three years...
Mann, Spengler and Stresemann. The son of the House of Mann stubbed his toe against life when his father died. The family business had to be sold at a loss in 1890. He moved with his mother to Munich, where she insisted that he must work at something. He sold fire insurance, writing novels by stealth until fame came. Like his great contemporary in philosophy, Oswald Spengler, his genius was fired most completely by contact with Mediterranean culture, and he repaid Italy with Der Tod in Vene dig (Death in Venice...
...Vatican City it was feared that the loss to His Holiness would be much greater than the theft of Commendatore Jorio, due to the failure of Banco Bombelli immediately after his flight. Meantime even more distressing rumors spread. Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World heard in Vatican City that the Papal Treasury lost heavily in Wall Street's slump (TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed...
...quintet faces a stiff schedule this winter when it squares off against Columbia, Army, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale. D. J. O'Connell '29, captain of last year's five, will be the sole loss through graduation and Coach Wachter will have a considerable nucleus of veterans with which to work. G. H. Pattison, Jr. '32 and W. S. Baskerville '32, regulars of last winter's Freshman five, have already started practice and are expected to bolster up the University squad...
...alumnus" for permission to finish $700,000 worth of the proposed plant. The request was granted. It soon became obvious, however, that it would be impractical to carry on the work only this far, owing to certain engineering difficulties. To fall down at this point would mean Harvard's loss of this much-needed building. Negotiations between the H. A. A. and the College authorities followed; it was decided to draw upon the reserve coffers of the A. A. for the construction of the plant up to the top floor. The impracticability of such action was once again brought forward...