Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Police first interested themselves in Mrs. Hahn one hot day last August. The proprietor of a Colorado Springs hotel, which she had just visited in the company of an aging but adventurous cobbler named George Obendoerfer, notified them of the loss of $305 worth of diamond rings. After tracing the theft to Mrs. Hahn, police found that Cobbler Obendoerfer had died the day after his escapade, poisoned by arsenic and croton oil. Further researches into Mrs. Hahn's career, which promptly took the form of exhuming corpses, suggested a curiously Teutonic fixity of purpose. Each corpse was that...
...with its beautiful buildings, playing fields, and comparatively well-to-do student body. The youngsters have not yet learned the gentle art of stealing cars, although this may come in time, but they have discovered the possibilities of income, in one form or another, from their wealthier neighbors. The loss incurred by the university community is slight, and only the possibility of a serious fire or an injured student can justify consideration of the problem on materialistic grounds; but Harvard should not be altogether deaf to its civic obligations...
Eliot and Winthrop finished the season deadlocked for second place, the Elephants with five wins and two defeats and the Rabbits and the Bellboys and the Puritans with four wins, two ties, and one loss. The Rabbits and the Bellboys also found themselves tied at the close of hostilities...
...candidates and the same number of Freshmen reported for the initial practice. With the loss only of Captain Brooks '37 and Lorrin Woodman '37, prospects for the best season in years loomed large, said Johnson...
...Wells last visited Harvard in 1906, at which time, he said, the college was mourning a great loss. "You had just had a hard winter and all your ivy had been killed off," he explained...