Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Holland. Dykes, windmills were smashed, thousands of acres flooded. Into The Hague limped the tug White Sea, Captain Verscheor, master, famed tugster who pulled the 50,000-ton world's largest floating drydock from Britain to Singapore, early this year, having lost his haul for the first time in, his career. Off Borkum Reef, the 200-foot drydock that he was towing last week reared high on two gigantic waves, broke in two, sank. Brave Captain Verscheor, bruised and bleeding from being smashed against the rails of his bridge, stood by to rescue all nine of the foundered drydock...
...Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose husband part owns the Chicago Tribune and Liberty, lost a lawsuit at Aiken, S. C., over a horse which she had bought from S. A. Warner Baltazzi of Westbury, L. I. The Court ordered her to pay $3,500 to Baltazzi. Her complaint: the horse was lame...
...problem of securing sufficient light for photographing still remained. Further experiments with Magnesium flares indicated that it was difficult, but not impossible, to use this method of lighting. If the flare was lighted too soon, the turtle retreated to the sea; if too late, half of the episode was lost...
...Have your hunters shod by a competent blacksmith every three weeks-four weeks at the outside-and then you will practically never have to pull out of a hunt because you've lost a shoe...
...coolly amorous passage through the social high spots of Europe, she has many calls on her generosity. When the story opens, she has just left one lover, an unripe Viennese poet, after an idyllic two weeks on a Mediterranean island. When her story ends, she has apparently lost her freedom but attained respectability by a morganatic marriage to a Middle-European prince. But between these two points the huntress of men has had good hunting: Diplomat Count Münsterberg, Millionaire Scherer, simple-minded Wilhelm, Bolshevik Kyril Sergeivitch, English Soldier Felix...