Word: losses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ninety-eight nine was defeated in a loosely played practice game yesterday by English High school. Ninety-eight was weakened by the loss of several regular men and, as it was, showed decided lack of practice. The men batted fairly well, but lost through errors. The school team was weak at the bat, but did the better fielding. The score by innings...
...flows the need of a permanent system, which has the advantages of having the machinery ready and getting a large number of cases referred to arbitration earlier. This means not only a lessening of the irritation and friction between the two counties, but also a saving of the material loss now produced by the mere apprehension of hostilities...
...town was attacked and after a ransom had been demanded and given, a faithless plunder followed. Thereafter, the importance of the city decreased. In 1525, it was plundered again by a jealous neighboring city and the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope caused the loss of its trade with the East...
...bring ourselves to really believe that one dollar is one hundred dollars. We feel in cases of this kind that there must be some tendency to believe. Paschal advocated belief in God because, as he said, if the belief were true there was infinite gain; if false, the loss was nothing. On the other hand, scientists think that nothing should be believed until it is proved...
...best things are the more eternal; second, that we are better off by believing this truth. In case both branches of this hypotheses are true, we are supposed to gain a certain good by belief. If we avoid the issue, we lose the good. The sceptic says, "Better risk loss of truth than chance of error." But we have no evidence that dupery through hope is worse than dupery through error. A sceptic, by requiring absolute proof before he believes, may cut himself off from all future good. We have a right to believe any hypothesis live enough to tempt...