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Word: losses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Danny Endweiss, of Yale, one of the best divers in the nation, was stricken with appendicitis after a meet on Wednesday and was operated on immediately. His loss will mean much to the Elis in the Princeton and Harvard meets. The attitude around the local pool is that his loss to Yale is unfortunate but then so was the loss of Willie Kendall to the Crimson...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Hoopsters and Confident Mermen in Action Today | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

These steps: would prevent the commission of a grave injustice. They would forestall the loss of the most popular and successful teacher in Fine Arts. But beyond this, they would possibly lead to fundamental changes in the department which, in view of its unparalleled resources, would make Harvard one of the world's leading centers of art culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE OF SIX | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

FROM a war-fearful and hastily rearming England comes a vividly engrossing account of the last world conflict. Recording the struggle from purely a military standpoint, Captain Hart devotes himself mainly to a demonstration of the follies and mistakes of Allied and German generals with the attendant needless loss of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

...fine. Although much of the material is of a rather technical nature, the reader's interest never lags. Particularly effective is the chapter dealing with the heroic campaign of the English in Belgium. Nowhere does the futility of war seem more apparent than in this account of the British loss of 100,000 lives for the sake of retaining a few square miles of disease-infested swampland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

...other fields. Harvard men, justly proud of his accomplishments, can only hope that a desire to use his talents where they were more needed dictated his retirement from the bench. For, at a time when democracy looks to defend itself from the onslaughts of bigotry and intolerance, the complete loss of the keen mind and tremendous ability of Louis Brandeis would be irreparable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRUSADER | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

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