Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poisons. There is comfort in such realizations when the ordinary use of things palls, so that it may not be for nothing that statistics have lately been applied to pedestrians waiting for traffic signals in Times Square in New York. It has been computed that 100,000 days are lost at that point every year, the suggested remedy being an underground passage between Times Square and the Grand Central Station...
...other important games Pennsylvania and Pittsburg trampled Cornell and Penn State. Columbia finally scored over Syracuse, New York University's Violets lost their first game this year to Nebraska, and the University of Georgia maintained its clean slate by toppling Alabama...
...subsequently presented to the University museum, the Stuttgart museum wrote to the University asking for either the loan of the fossils, or photographs. A search of the University museum failed to discover the particular type fossils requested, and it was only after a long search that the lost types were found in an obscure corner of the Boston Society museum...
...round these immaculate mortals and the man in red, went horses all day long. Polo ponies, saddle horses, hunters, pony tandems, draft horses, tandems, hackneys, artillery horses strapped to caissons, police mounts, jumpers, saddle tandems, road hacks. Some walked, some trotted, jumped, pulled phaetons, balked, whinnied, won and lost. To add to the illusion, a clatter of old time coachesf filled the arena now and then, with "coaching parties" riding on their roofs. William H. Vanderbilt tooled one of them. Another exhibitor at the show was J. G. Gerardi, of Scranton, Pa., for whom a kind-hearted judge had postponed...
...Saturday afternoon another Harvard team met another Yale defeat. To the general public the fact will probably mean just that: another lost game for Harvard, and one more instance of its gridiron decline. To all Harvard men, however,--and to all Yale men who were in the Stadium that afternoon--it will mean much more; it will mean that another Harvard team lived up to the fighting standards of previous Harvard teams, refusing to be influenced by predicted scores and ceasing to play the game only at the final whistle...