Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back after a hard struggle bravely fought and splendidly won. . . . No more sincere thanks went up to God for your recovery than from French hearts. France has lost many sons and therefore she clings much more to her friends. . . . You have many times explained France to America, you will have once more to explain America to France. She will believe you, for, to use an American expression, she knows that Myron Herrick is the man 'who delivers the goods...
...estimated that Sir Thomas has lost more than a million pounds in his various musical enterprises...
...iniquitous attempt to drag the truth?divinely revealed truth?into a compromise? . . . If we admit this possibility, we must also say that the descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles, that the permanence of the Holy Ghost in the Church, and even the teaching of Jesus Christ, lost all influence in the world many centuries ago. To affirm this is blasphemy...
...younger brothers of Cinderella are so frequently found and fitted with a slipper of gold instead of glass, that the tale has lost its edge. Yet, last week, Wall Street men perused with interest the news that 36 year-old Robert Livingston Clarkson had been elected president of the second largest U. S. national bank, the Chase National,* in Manhattan. He had, they learned with no surprise, begun his financial career by functioning as a runner for $4 weekly. Furnished by newssheets only with this familiar detail, some wondered what filled in the enormous gap; a gap that for many...
Most of the old road's capitalization was in bonds. All classes of security holders (except the U. S. Government which had loaned the road $55,000,000 and the owners of $182,130,960 especially safe-guarded bonds) lost. But they did not lose everything. Among the debris of the St. Paul's crash lay many a valuable share, which the re-organization managers, whom Jerome J. Hanauer's† gloved hand directed, fitted together a new pot for gold...