Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other bracket of the semi-finals Tilden and Hunter were careless in the first set, lost it 5-7 to John Hennessey, Indianapolis, and Lucien Williams, Chicago. Tilden and Hunter tightened up, ran the match out easily...
...week for selling his New York Stock Exchange seat for $226,000, newest high seat price; buyer was one Malcolm E. Falk, broker, who exuberantly counted on his buy becoming worth half a million dollars in five or ten years; seller was Walter L. Ross, brother of famed, because lost, Charley Ross...
...Story. Edith Brown, lost in a fog, sits down on Colonel Dessiter's steps. He, about to die, asks her in. Is she by chance a typist? Thank goodness! Will she please take down this story, great danger though it will place her in? Yes, yes, Miss Brown fears nothing in life. For the next three hours she lives in a hair-raising world of super-romantic adventure. Colonel Dessiter has possession of the worldwide schemes of the Communists including the Chinese situation, India, Europe, the U. S.?everywhere. Now Miss Brown has possession of them too and since...
Jean Callizo, French claimant of the world's record (40,820 ft.), last week lost his distinction. When he claimed the record, he was suspected; last week he seemed to rise to even greater heights, marked on his barograph as 42,650 ft. Suspecting officials had placed another barograph in his plane, unknown to Flyer Callizo, which registered only 14,764 ft. It is charged he inserted in the record-breaking barograph a sheet of paper with "42,650 ft." marked in invisible ink; when far out of sight, that he turned a steam jet on the paper; made...
...Bourget. ¶Capt. F. T. Courtney, English flyer, waited almost all summer to make the treacherous westward passage across the Atlantic in his flying boat, The Whale. With autumn coming and weather chances fading, he hopped off from Plymouth, England. Fearing the dangerous northern route on which were lost Nungesser and Coli, and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, Courtney steered for the Azores. Head winds and thick weather fought with him. Cautious, he turned his ship and came down on the Spanish coast. With him came down a navigator, a mechanic and E. B. Hosmer, rich Montrealer who had paid...