Word: loss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tutoring has suffered rather from publicity-conscious tutors than from any defects inherent in the nature of the profession. Certain practices associated with the loss reputable tutoring schools are definitely malodorous. These include writing papers. These practices should be stamped out, but there are older heads who have observed many generations of college life and know that there is much good that can be done by tutors who consider their work a profession, with the other of a profession...
Last week, he was visibly glad the strain was over. He made good all but $30,000 of the loss, offered his house to reduce the deficit further, said he wanted to take his medicine. Impressed, the judge let him off with two to five years in State prison...
...well have added that his throwing wing was "loose as gooseberries" or any other more dramatic announcement. But the newsmen could add all that. They had heard enough--the highest authority in the land had commented on the news the land was waiting for. His arm was ready to loss in the first ball of today's game in Griffith Stadium, opening the 1939 major league baseball season...
...forty-eight articles on mediaeval art, twenty-two on Renaissance and Baroque Art, and one on Modern Art. Perhaps it is because the critical apparatus of most scholars is so beautifully equipped to deal with Masaccio and Piero della Francesca that it finds itself at a loss when confronted by Dali and Gropper. At a symposium on Modern Art some years ago, I heard a scholar who has written much and wisely on the art of the Italian Renaissance attempt, quite unsuccessfully, to cope with some of the more extreme forms of modernism; I concluded that his powers of connoisseurship...
...that Harvard grant him a regular position on the Faculty." For some unexplained, but perhaps not inexplicable, reason neither Mr. Hicks nor any of his fellow councilors were reappointed to the jobs in which they were beginning to attain the skill that comes from experience. But what is a loss to the American Civilization plan can in this case be turning to the advantage of one of the regular departments of the University...