Word: loss
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While soldiers were marching through the Yard, male students faced the imminence of the draft while women and the ineligible struggled to make the best of their college years. The class also saw 10 of its members loss their lives in World...
...team's first loss came in its first game ever against Rutgers Nov. 2. The Crimson was overmatched and shut out, 13-0, and any hope of a Rose Bowl appearance was dashed...
...indelible aura, a mythical glamour the color of Crimson tradition. Although the glamour was alluring, it was also distancing. Places with so much history and so much grandeur rarely lend themselves to intense personal involvement or relationship. Over the years, the glow fades. Part of me mourns this loss, the end of enchantment. However, perhaps it is for the best that Harvard loses its rosy glow as we live here. When the College loomed so large, we felt too small to impact its future; as its size diminished, our power and desire to engage with it and to change what...
...previous school year, which forces teachers to spend part of the next school year on review work. Economically disadvantaged students, whose learning is often not reinforced in their homes or in their communities, forget much more each summer. Research shows the economically disadvantaged suffer about two months of learning loss, vs. one month for better-off students. This phenomenon recurs summer after summer. Shorter summers could reduce this gap while raising the achievement of all students, including those at the top. This would be no mean feat...
...sent the stock plunging in early trading Friday, dragging many other tech-stocks with it. Citing surprisingly weak demand for its microprocessor chips, Intel suffered a 14.5 percent drop in morning trading on the Nasdaq exchange. By the end of trading, the stock made up more than half its loss, finishing down $12.27 at $151.50 "Investors have a tendency to oversell and overbuy stocks when there is especially good or bad news," said Charles Boucher, an analyst at New York-based UBS Securities. "On a negative announcement from a company that is as widely owned as Intel, you normally...