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Word: lost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isle of Lost Ships (First National). This is the dialog adaptation of a six-year-old picture built around the legend that there is an island in the Sargasso Sea composed of wrecked hulls. Action gets going around three survivors of the latest wreck?a girl, a man convicted of murder, a comedy detective. Occasionally effective camera work fails to make up for stolid sequences of dialog explaining the locale, or for the pathetic struggle between the hero and the scav- engers who live on the lost ships. Silliest shot: the super-scavenger being ceremoniously married to the unconscious body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Thus far this season, the soccer team has won five games, lost one, and tied one. Starting out with seven Sophomores in the lineup, the team won its first five games, defeating Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 3 to 0; the strong Syracuse aggregation, 1 to 0; Bridgewater Normal Institute, 7 to 2; Dartmouth, 3 to 0; and the renowned Northeastern team, 5 to 1. Two days later, however, Amherst visited Cambridge and decisively defeated the Crimson, 4 to 2; and Harvard's last game resulted in a tie with M. I. T., 1 to 1, on the Technology field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM GOES SOUTH WITH BRIGHT PROSPECTS | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

...connection with the appearance of the Society in Boston, the Treasure Room in Widener is displaying manuscripts of early English music. One composition, a publication of 1593, is called "The Seventh Day--A Cantata", based on "Paradise Lost". Some love songs of 1688 bearing the dedication "to her Grace the Duchess of Queensberry", are also being shown. This exhibit will continue throughout the stay of the English Folk Dance Society in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH FOLK DANCERS VISIT HARVARD TODAY | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

...practices of the past. Unfortunately, most of these movements get started too late to save many of the most interesting examples of former arts, but the present society has had the great advantage of coming into existence before folk dancing was added to the already too long list of lost arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAST AND PRESENT | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

...team will meet the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Engineers' field. In this game the team will seek to avenge itself for the defeat suffered last Friday afternoon at the lands of Amberst when Harvard was unable to get well started, and lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM FACES M. I. T. AFTER FIRST SEASON DEFEAT | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

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