Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press . . . appears to have lost very much of its power as a director of public thought. ... It ought to undertake to recapture the dominant position it formerly held as a distributor of current information and a director of public opinion...
...England has lost its monopoly of the textile industry, for factories have grown under favorable conditions in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Then too, the Yankee is perhaps less thrifty. Some of his sons and grandsons have preferred golf sticks to spindles. Others have sold the old factory to absentee owners in Manhattan. Meanwhile, mass production was bringing in foreign populations...
...this season the 1931 runners have been particularly successful in the relay and dashes. At Andover there will be no relay event, and encountering a team which is always strong in the field events, the Freshmen will probably have close competition. Andover lost last year to the 1930 team by the close score...
...three years Baker has held the title which he lost yesterday to Pool, and has held the national title for one year. The fact that Pool has defeated Baker six straight matches out of as many played indicates that the University captain has more than an even chance of winning the national title, when squash players from all over the country meet at Philadelphia this week in the National Championship matches...
...University players have been drilling this week to improve their attack which was below par in the game with Amherst last Friday. The Crimson team lost the contest in the closing minutes of the game. At the opening of the game, the quintet looked as if it had regained the speed and scoring power that had brought victory to Harvard in the games following the Christmas recess...