Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a procedure, the natural outcome of the University's policies, would be utterly futile, if, in increasing her appeal and in extending her boundaries she had lost the original soundness and vigor which characterized her founders. If Harvard had rated the importance of quality below that of quantity and consequently directed her efforts toward magnifying the latter, allowing the former to dwindle to insignificance, she would have been guilty of the sin of educational simony. Instead, the governing powers of the University during the period of her most concentrated growth saw that the only New England principles...
...risk of being lynched by some of my hearers, that the sum of human happiness, outside of scientific circles, would not necessarily be reduced if, for say ten years, every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy displayed in them transferred to recovering the lost art of geting together and finding a formula for making the ends meet in the scale of human life...
...Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, the contest for the famed Davis Cup stood even with two matches for the U. S. and two for France after William T. Tilden II had lost to Rene Lacoste 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Out ran William Johnston, famed Davis Cup defender, only hope of the U. S. team. He would show that U. S. stamina could whip French flabbiness...
Handwriting. Newspapers last week printed the last words of Paul Redfern, lost flyer to Brazil. In scratchy manuscript, dropped to the deck of the steamer Christian Krogh, the facsimile read: "Point ship to nearest land, wave flag or handkerchief once for each 100 miles. Thanks, Redfern...
Died. Lave Cross, famed baseball player, third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics who lost the 1905 World's Series to McGraw's New York Giants; in Toledo. Though third baseman, he played his position with a catcher's mitt.- Died. Dr. Edward Wallace Lee, 68, famed railroad surgeon, one of those who attended President William McKinley at the assassination by one Leon Czologosz in 1901 at Buffalo;† at Randolph...