Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet of Mercedes Gleitz touched chalk rocks on the South shore of England. Exclamatory, she thanked God she was conscious and then fell into stupor for two hours. Fifteen hours and 15 minutes earlier her feet had lost touch with French rocks at Cape Gris Nez. Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman...
...great menace of Notre Dame developed as expected in Detroit, defeating the local University 20-0. ¶ In the South, the once famous Centre College lost docilly to Vanderbilt, 6 points...
...Bulldog scored suddenly in the first four minutes and again in the second period. From then on he was savagely on the defensive; turning back in the final period three separate desperate lunges on the threshold Of his own goal. In the last three minutes the game was apparently lost when a forward pass floated over the Bulldog's goal into enemy arms. But the play was not allowed as the enemy was out of the end zone. Thus the Bulldog of Georgia beat the Bulldog of Yale for the first time in their four years' fighting...
...club could hardly have won four games out of four, could hardly have made the watching thousands wonder audibly, indeed raucously, how the Pittsburgh team ever succeeded in winning the right to represent the National League in the contest for the baseball championship of the world. Errors made a lost cause almost ridiculous...
...failed to put out a runner coming in from third base. After these various misadventures, the Pittsburgh pitcher weakened and the New York club, by hard hitting, ran up their big score. CE The Pirates saved the most damaging error for their last hopeless stand. With three games already lost, they rallied to save themselves from the humiliation of four successive defeats and came into the ninth inning with the score tied at 3 to 3. This despite another home-run by Hitter Ruth. Batting in the ninth, the Yankees put three men on base with no one out. Then...