Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaders of college pitching last season, has already cut two notches on his record of victories. Virginia and Georgetown having fallen before his skill. On the spring trip last year Duplin of Georgetown, then a substitute, came through with a hit in the pinch which lost the game for the Harvard hurler. In the meeting last week Duplin, as regular left fielder, contributed three of his team's 12 hits...
...felled by steady musket-fire; at North Anna where Lee entrenched before Grant could arrive; at Cold Harbor where steady artillery hammering failed utterly against tall breastworks, Lee baited Grant, taunted him, hurt him. Petersburg saw Lee defending the Danville railway, source of Confederate supplies, and losing men. Grant lost more, but had more to lose. The pressure was beginning to tell on Lee. In the spring of 1865, a gallant remnant of Lee's army, to whose "tattered standards the fortunes of the Confederacy had been nailed," laid down its arms at Appomattox...
Optimistic Royal Air Force officials pointed out that although 25 of their airmen have lost their lives this year, the number was 48 in 1927 and 85 in 1926. With a little luck 1928 will not be Death's Banner Year...
Against the heavier Maroons the Rangers lost the first game, 2-0. In the second game each team had a goal when Goalie Chabot of the Rangers was hit in the eye with a puck, taken to the hospital. Coach Lester Patrick, famed defense man in his day, put on the goalie's pads, kept goal for his team, stopped all rushes, was wildly cheered. In the overtime period Johnson passed to Boucher who whipped the puck into the Montreal goal, winning the game 2-1, with two games left to play...
Fortunes have been lost in advertising-but not when the product is as sound and as timely as Mr. Mazur's book...