Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guadeloupe. Here reside proud, stalwart, race-conscious black. French Colony. Emperor Napoleon lost 3,000 black Guadeloupe soldiers during his retreat from Moscow...
...summer vacation; or because of carelessness. There is a surprisingly large number of such cases. These men are given a fresh blank which they fill out, and the chairman assignes them to an Adviser before they leave the office. There are also a good many men who have lost the notice of the appointment of their Advisers, and who come to the office for information on this point...
...borowed from milkman 12.00 1 Horse, gallop in Vanderbilt Ave. 5.00 Fine and Costs 13.00 Bench in Grand Central Experience Train to Northfield, Vt., by mistake 14.40 Refreshments at Northfield, Vt. (also by mistake) 5.00 Aspirin .15 Return train to Bratteboro. Vt., 3.47 Handear to Northfield, Mass. 19.62 Reputation lost in Northfield. Mass. 02 Heart balm again 25.00 Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care 3.00 The rest is silence...
...with an umbrella. When the band played "Abide With Me", he refused, and shouting, "I don't believe in religion of any sort," belabored the commanding Major about the head with his weapon. In this instance, the temerity of revivalism in attempting to usurp the place where so many lost causes have died in peace may be criticized. But no one can but commend the truly Christian spirit of Major Harvey who merely smiled at his assailant, and refused to protect himself or have the other arrested...
...onslaughts. Usually when a pastor sees a menacing umbrella, he attempts to wrest it from the hands of the brandisher, and break it against future attacks. And in his failure to do so, he betrays the weakness of his body. Such was the case of Dr. Straton who recently lost in court his case against a militant atheist whose propaganda was hardly worthy of such attention...