Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longstanding fight of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to elevate their profession from a status of menial service, for which the traveling public gives condescending "tips," was lost last week. The Interstate Commerce Commission refusing to command the Pullman Co. to prohibit tipping, interpreted the porters' plea as an effort to elevate something besides the status of their profession. "A consideration of the complaint in all its aspects," said the Commission, "leads only to the conclusion that the real objectives sought are increased wages. . . ." The Commission, as every interstate employer knows, has no power to regulate wages...
...Zaghlul, widow of the great anti-British statesman Zaghlul Pasha (1860-1927), was active at Cairo last week in checking ill-timed anti-British riots by Members of his party, the Wafd. She and servants played a fire hose on certain rioters. Others, unchecked, lost their heads so completely that they mistook for an Englishman and attacked the Principal of the American College outside of Cairo, Dr. Charles P. Russel of Hastings, Neb. At him was thrown acid which burned him, though not dangerously...
...associated the food with the sound; the power house of the upper brain has gone into action, and the intelligent animal now reacts to an idea. This is the learning mechanism in its elementary form. If the upper brain is now removed, the learned reaction will be lost...
While they have not met in a duel track meet before, Michigan and Harvard have clashed in other sports. Back on October 31, 1881, a Michigan football team visited Cambridge and lost by a single touchdown. November 9, 1885, the University beat Michigan again 4 to 0. And in 1914 the Crimson again triumphed 7 to 0. In baseball the two met in 1892, 1894, and 1901, the University winning in each case, 4 to 2, 7 to 5, and 5 to 4 respectively...
...College has grown, the common meeting grounds have tended to disappear. Classes have been broken up and their members scattered in distant dormitories. That ancient institution, the Fence, has lost its charm. John Doe and the social celebrity, no longer sit side by side on its top rail and aimlessly while away the time between classes. The old beer shops, where all gathered Saturday night for an evening of good fellowship, are but a sacred memory. In their place have come movies, cars, and wholesale migrations known as the "week-end exodus". The last common meeting place to withstand...