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Word: lost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Like many fundamental truths, the idea of "doing a little more than the job calls for" has become so disagreeably trite and familiar that it has lost all its meaning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOING THE UNNECESSARY | 12/2/1916 | See Source »

...touchdown through the entire Yale team, but some Crimson player had been seen to trip a Yale man, and the play was called back, the University losing not only its touchdown but 15 yards besides. Casey was never able to break through again; the golden opportunity was lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VICTORY YALE'S | 11/27/1916 | See Source »

...first league game, however, with Princeton, the University was defeated 2 to 4, but retrieved this defeat later by taking the game from Cornell by the same score. In the most critical game of the series, that with Pennsylvania last Saturday, the University lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SOCCER MEN AND YALE MEET AT NEW HAVEN | 11/25/1916 | See Source »

...Tufts-Syracuse game at Fenway Park is the most prominent athletic attraction in Boston today, Tufts, with only two out of seven games played, has the advantage over her opponent, who has lost four of the eight games of her schedule. Since Tufts has her full strength again, and Syracuse has a much heavier rush line, a close contest is expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tufts and Army Favored Today | 11/25/1916 | See Source »

...worked together in its present form as long as has the University because of the frequent injuries which have from time to time forced some of the best players on the Blue squad to retire from the game. Such men as Bingham, Braden and Sheldon have been lost to Yale, and consequently today's probable line-up will contain a combination which has not been together for more than two weeks. The men who will in all probability start the game for the University have formed the first eleven practically since the Cornell game. The one exception is that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE WARRIORS FIGHT TO BREAK HARVARD'S STRING OF VICTORIES | 11/25/1916 | See Source »

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