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Word: lost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want of a horse, the barn was lost, and for want of a barn, the Dramatic Club may be lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARN SHORTAGE IMPERILS THESPLAN PLAY PROPERTIES | 1/17/1928 | See Source »

...second time in one week the University debating team failed to convince its audience that "Al Smith was not eminently qualified for the presidency" when it lost to the Columbia University debaters Saturday night at the Horace Mann School in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA BEATS DEBATING TEAM IN NEW YORK CITY | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...American delegation to survey and report conditions in Central Europe and the Balkans, all contributed to his immense store of practical experience. The friendly compacts which he had reestablished with statesmen in foreign countries kept him intimately in touch with the world-wide movements. We have all lost a great teacher, and a friend who because of the nobility of his character was particularly qualified to interpret the affairs of other nations and so to enlighten his own countrymen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death of Professor Coolidge Saturday, Loss to University | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...squash played this year on the University courts, Captain J. L. Pool '28 of the University team, combining speed with accuracy, defeated M. P. Baker '25 of the Boston Athletic Association, three straight sets Saturday in the concluding series of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association tournament. The University, however, lost its series of matches by a score of 3-2, and thereby dropped to third place in the Association tournament. The other three University teams were victorious in their matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOL DEFEATS BAKER OF B. A. A. IN SQUASH UPSET | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...participants in this modern "Love's Labour Lost" deserve much sympathy. Experience leads toward wisdom, and wider understanding, no doubt, will be brought about between the sexes at the University of Missouri. While a permanent turning of the tables is hardly to be desired, for the moment, at least, the rest of the university and collegiate world may well turn green with envy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WOMAN PAYS | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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