Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago, an alleged but obvious pool had taken "Snubber" stock in hand, had run it up from $40 to $60. Then it fell from $60 to $18, sometimes at a rate of $4 a day. A printed rumor had it that President George H. Rawls of Gabriel, had lost the shock absorber business of the General Motors Corp. President Rawls explained to stockholders that last year was one of the most successful periods in the company's history, but important research and development work required much capital...
...what he deserves is that he might get it. Last week in Los Angeles George Godfrey met squatty Paolino Uzcudun, Basque, who still has to bring an interpreter to the ring so that he can understand what the referee says. Forty-four pounds lighter than the black man, Paolino lost the decision in a ten round bout made up mostly of clinches...
Thus almost lost to fame is the most exciting and excitable figure that ever trod the soil of North America. Frémont was, characteristically enough, born unconventionally in 1813. His mother was the wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver...
After the war, Frémont lived in luxury in Manhattan and Tarrytown, N. Y. (part of his estate was later owned by John D. Rockefeller). Then suddenly he lost all his wealth in a railroad scheme in the West. His wife wrote articles for newspapers and magazines. President Hayes appointed him territorial governor of Arizona in 1878 at a salary of $2,000 a year. In 1890, soon after the Army put him on the retired pay list, he died of a violent chill, in a Manhattan boarding house. Jessie lived until...
...University class C squash racquets team lost to the Union Boat Club Saturday by a 4 to 1 score...