Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Memorial Hall's clock started scratching yesterday from an annual attack of spring fever and the result of the maneuver was loss of eight minutes and the discombobulation of several classes...
Whereas petty thievery in 75 reported instances had resulted in the loss of approximately $3500 at this time last March, figures obtained from Lehman Hall indicate that only 35 cases of robbery have been brought to light since the beginning of this academic year...
What is the reader to decide about Allegra and Byron, now that moralistic criticism is out of fashion? One is always at loss somehow in endeavoring to avoid becoming the Pharisee and declaring self-righteously, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." For the Romantics were good poets but very unlovely men, and Byron was the most unmanageable of the lot. Despite his years at Harrow and at Cambridge, Byron never quite learned what was cricket and what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long...
...Sophomore year has lost many months of work and is consequently ill-prepared for his later examinations. Concentration-on-approval for the last few months of the Freshman year would enable the student to judge from experience the choice he has made before any real loss has been suffered...
...layoffs and post-NRA lengthening of working hours were blamed by the American Federation of Labor last week for the fact that an estimated 1,229,000 persons lost their jobs last January, as compared with 669,000 in January 1935. A five-year record for the month, the loss brought the A. F. of L.'s estimate of total unemployed to 12,626,000. Its figure for January...