Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Donner Steel. Buffalo company making mostly special steels. Control was bought this summer by Mr. Eaton who paid $35 per share for the stock held by President William Henry Donner. Later the same offer was made to the minority holders. Company recently lost a patent suit to the Witherow Steel Corp. Eaton interests are now reported seeking control of Witherow...
...parrot who took the part of a sailor's pet. One by one the company sickened. An actor and an actress died. Alarmed physicians were at a loss for a diagnosis. The symtoms were simple: nausea, constipation, a fever preceded by a chill. Then the parrot too lost appetite, moulted, became diarrhetic, died. The doctors examined him, pronounced his death due to psittachosis-parrot-disease. They warned parrot-owners that this infection would kill their pets and themselves as well. Parrots thus diseased must be segregated or killed. Health officials were surprised to find the case in Argentina...
...Kizhuyak Bay, Alaska, one Anton Larson, 68, lost his false teeth as he pulled his boat's anchor out of ten fathoms of water. He dropped the anchor, took a deep breath, pulled himself down the chain to the bottom, rescued the teeth...
...Harvard Freshman soccer team lost to Worcester Academy by the score of three goals to nothing Saturday afternoon on the field behind the Business School. The schoolboys outplayed their opponents in every department of the game. The yearlings lacked their usual pep, and were unable either to pass accurately, or to prevent the concerted rushes of their rivals. The Academy team had an excellent defense, stopping numerous 1933 attacks...
...preparatory school race, Newark Prep nosed out the strong Hebron Academy after a close race. The winners made a score of 35, gaining third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh positions. Hebron won-second, fourth, and sixth, but lost out in total when its last two runners finished fifteenth and seventeenth respectively...