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Word: lost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter what is said on such occasions as these, when a game has been won, lost or tied, the reader is perfectly logical in his own pre-conceived opinion that (a) it has been said before, (b) it has been said better and (c) it need never have been said at all. Such prejudices, coupled with the fact that no one has ever yet succeeded in finishing an editorial during the exodus from Soldiers Field, would seem to make all comments, including this one, unnecessary. Nevertheless even extras have editorial columns so the only proper course of action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER ALL-- | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard, would prevent the law from molesting any of the town as long as the gown was accessible. But a financial panic in Harvard Square would be the result of the auto rental rules, a disaster that would be comparable only to that historic incident in which hundreds lost all but the clothes on their backs the great Valeteria Bubble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEARING OF THE GREEN | 11/17/1927 | See Source »

...gave his time willingly to serve interests not his own. He had the gifts which make social intercourse pleasant,--humor, readiness and felicity of expression, quick appreciation, and the resources of a wide culture at the command of a ready and retentive memory. When he died the world lost much more than one of its great scholars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NORTON CENTENARY | 11/16/1927 | See Source »

...That the Government, by sponsoring: a) increases in salaries of Federal employes, b) a costly new school measure, and c) indemnification of German nationals for property lost abroad during the War, a measure involving 1,000,000,000 marks ($250,000,000), had set in motion a serious financial crisis that could be overcome only by immediate retrenchment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Gilbert Note | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Illinois retained a stainless record in the Western Conference scoring two touchdowns, 14 points, against Iowa's none. Michigan managed Chicago with the same score. In an intersectional game which recaptured some of the prestige lost by Ohio State at Princeton, Missouri won from West Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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