Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Read the instruction leaflet and note: a) that discharge papers should accompany applications; b) that, if discharge papers are lost, memory may serve in filling out the blank but that the War & Navy Departments and the Marine Corps will dislike it if you ask them to tell you when, where or how you served...
...Hampshire. Miss H. Gwendolyn Jones, wholesome 26-year-old graduate of the State University, tried to become the mayor of Concord and thus first woman mayor in New England on a campaign expenditure of $25, with one 15-minute speech per day. Flood conditions hampered voting. Miss Jones lost to Mayor Fred N. Marden, 2,200 to 4,464. Miss Jones said she would now study law at Yale University...
...From coast to coast and frontier to frontier the U. S. people hallowed the memory of their 126,000 War dead. In the national Valhalla at Arlington a granite Cross of Sacrifice was dedicated by Canada to those U. S. soldiers who lost their lives while fighting with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. The great cross, 30 feet in height was unveiled by Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S., and accepted by Frank Billings Kellogg, U. S. Secretary of State, in a moving ceremony. Many dignitaries were present...
...true lover of sport failed to get excited during the summer of 1925 when the newspapers were full of reports from the Mt. Everest Expedition which made two valiant attempts on the peak, and which lost two of its daring climbers, Mallory and Irvine. The world waited in breathless suspense for news of victory over the highest peak on the face of the earth: but instead came the news of defeat and death, the climax of the greatest known mountain expedition...
...publishers' presses. Chaliapin and Bismarck ... Napoleon and His Women Friends ... Robespierre and Uncle Joe Cannon ... with every anecdote that ever murmured about them in five point type. All the state secrets the private correspondence, the family albums, the unkind word and the billet doux that was lost before it could be committed to the flames...