Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the New York-to-Cuba vacation liner Morro Castle was gutted by fire off the New Jersey coast in 1934 with the loss of 124 lives, closest approach to a hero to emerge from the muckraking Department of Commerce investigation that followed was the ship's chief radio operator, pudgy George White ("Sparks") Rogers. Having stuck to his key until he was hauled out of the radio room half-suffocated, Sparks Rogers was decorated for his heroism by the Veteran Wireless Operators Association...
Resorting too frequently to the rough and tumble football tactics, the Varsity was at a loss in checking the deft offense of the experienced Cambridge University fifteen. It was Harvard's first meet of the season; Cambridge's twenty-seventh...
...These Diseases, it is estimated, cause a yearly loss of 7,500,000 weeks of work in this country at a total annual cost of $200,000,000," the doctor said...
Bureau statisticians arrived at the figure by multiplying an average weight loss of two pounds by the 90 per cent of the student body believed to engage in intensive study before examinations...
...Eastern Intercollegiate League this season on paper. In contrast with the other circuit nines. Harvard has most of its last year's lettermen back on the roster. Pennsylvania and Cornell will probably continue to be the woak sisters while Princeton and Yale will be seriously hampered by the loss of their best hurlers, Bell and Horton...