Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team is far from a beaten organization as it faces tomorrow's kickoff. The team has a lot of football ability stored away, and Brown men are momentarily expecting the combination to uncover the coordination and rhythm that will make it a properly functioning team. The team has lost to be sure, but has been fighting all the way, and is in no way disgraced. The morale of the men is high, and the spirit of the team is good...
...death of Payson Dana, class of 1904, Harvard College has lost an able and devoted alumnus. He was always genial and happy, a leader in every place and undertaking. The greater part of his latter years was almost entirely devoted to Public Service...
...eleven has been tied once by Worcester and has had one narrow victory over the Dartmouth 1931 players, but has won by substantial scores from Andover, Exeter, and the Harvard Seconds, and in all its games has shown great ground gaining power. The Elis, on the other hand, have lost a hard fought game to St. John's Prep and found a much tougher opponent in Andover than the Crimson team...
...England again. John Burgoyne began by giving an account, far less prejudiced than those read in most school histories, of how he had lost the battle of the century. This he published in a fine quarto volume prefaced by a narrative in three "'periods'; by which he really meant acts, for a sense of the drama was always strong in his mind." After that he wrote plays, all mediocre, which were produced in London. He died in London, aged 70, on a summer...
...America make a beaten path to his door, with the Literary Guild as forest guide. He can never hope to equal the Poet of the People, but "Isolt of the white hands" fifty thousand times iterated is a respectable showing. The pleasantest part of it is that he has lost no part of his poetic dignity; he can still turn to Judge Public and say: "Nobody asked...