Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were convicted of bombing the local Preparedness Day parade in 1916 with a loss of ten lives...
Prejudicial inference: A true statement, but worded to convey prejudice against Mooney, playing upon the sentiment of Preparedness Day and loss of lives...
...mule caravans freighted with food and munitions were captured, according to bug-eyed native runners who reached Dessye. They said that the main Italian column, fighting in the classic hollow square formation Queen Victoria's troops used in the Sudan, managed to stand off the tribesmen with a loss of 200 native and white Italian troops. Dejected, bedraggled and burning with thirst, they made their way back to Italian Eritrea...
...consist of $37,500 in cash and 500,000 shares of Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., successor to an earlier company of the same name founded by James D. Dole in 1901. As all the holding company does is to hold, it reports no income, no outgo, no profit, no loss. It was formed in 1932 (along with the present Pineapple Co.) to straighten out the tangled affairs of the Dole company, which had grown long on inventory, short on cash. Its president, able young Atherton Richards, is also president of the Pineapple company, and dissolution of the holding company means...
...consistent though unspectacular Freshman football team will meet Andover today at the prep school's grounds. This game will be the third of the season for the Freshmen, a win over Exeter and a loss of Worcester Academy being the record to date...