Word: loss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munro's task is nothing short of tremendous. Last fall, in his first season here, he fashioned a team which lost only to Springfield (his alma mater and defending national champion) and Navy, Harvard's only Ivy League loss. The 1948 team finished second to Cornell in the Ivy League and runner-up to Connecticut in the New England circuit...
...honest mistake. There was no evidence two weeks ago of the unprecedented demand for Columbia tickets. He had to guess and he guessed wrong. Much as it may grieve many of the fire-eaters, you cannot fairly denounce the ticket denounce as a hopeless hungler, especially after Saturday's loss to Stanford. Yet the grotesque situation remains. 9500 people want to go to New York to see the Crimson play Columbia. Only the wiseacre undergraduates, the guys who applied last week and got section 5, or the fifty yard line, will see the game from good locations...
Fixed Price. In McAlester, Okla., Mrs. B. S. Nabor collected $2,500 damages from the Rock Island and M.K.T. railroads for injuries suffered when she fell at the depot; simultaneously her husband collected an additional $500 for "loss of his wife's affections during her hospitalization...
...from decreasing the value of the Seminar, however, the greater congeniality among the students from 16 European countries has made possible a franker and loss hesitant approach to all aspects of American life and to questions of American policy in Europe...
...economic symposium, "Profit and Loss Economy and the Welfare State," a three-man panel predicted no violent change in the current of American history within the next 15 years...