Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mount Rushmore. "We have come home to dedicate a cornerstone that was laid by the hand of the Almighty," said the President. ķAt the annual carnival of the Rapid City Elks in the Alfalfa Palace fair grounds, President Coolidge saw a prize fight, smiled when Fisticuffer Brown nearly lost his balance swinging at Fisticuffer Gusk...
...came in the dense blackness between midnight and dawn?for in China one who has "lost face" does well to hide his features. A 'faithful secretary would say only: "General Chiang Kaishek is with his family here and is going into retirement indefinitely, seeking rest following a year of superhuman efforts to further the nationalist cause...
...success of the nationalist movement and its present heartbreaking disintegration. "Our revolution got into difficulties because of communism," declared General Chiang, and then mourned that his own ruthless anti-communist activities had been interpreted by many Nationalists as aggrandizement so that "My nationalist comrades subsequently in almost all cases lost confidence...
Thus three entrants in the Dole Prize flight to Honolulu lost. Came criticism that greediness for the $25,000 prize and the $10,000 second prize was taking men into the air with inefficient planes. Airmen answered that all tests were under U. S. Department of Commerce supervision. Flyers in the race signed a last minute agreement to delay the start four days, to give opportunity for minuter mechanical overhauling, stricter sifting of entrants' abilities...
...increasing jumbles of superlatives, was worthy of their praise and easily defeated Joan Fry and Mrs. Kathleen McKane Godfree. Molla Mallory, with more difficulty, did the same thing. Miss Wills and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman won a doubles match for the U. S.; Eleanor Goss and Charlotte Hosmer Chapin lost one. Helen Jacobs lost the only U. S. singles match to Betty Nuthall sixteen-year-old-English girl who defeated Mrs. Mallory at Wimbledon. The score was five matches...