Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter of fault-finding as to style of writing I The exhibition of general ignorance and boorishness in Mr. Dowse's unprovoked affront makes it clear that he himself has certainly not yet learned how to read or to write. The admirably condensed style of TIME is lost upon him. He picks upon a few minor objections and uses them to vent his spleen against Americans in general-the commonest form of logical fallacy; generalizing from insufficient data. He is utterly and absolutely wrong in his statements and implications. I have studied the written and spoken language in England...
Tomorrow at 10 o'clock the Freshman crews will meet in a two-mile upstream clash. Yale is not tremendously powerful, having lost to Princeton, and the Crimson 1930 boat is a slight favorite. Captain Willard's boat, however, has a way of looking pretty in practice and not so fast under fire. In its one race it beat M. I. T. and Pennsylvania, but not by the margin which the difference in the appearance of the crews seemed to warrant...
...race for second crews which follows the Freshman encounter, will find two well-matched eights. Cornell's Jayvees lost to Yale and beat Harvard, so the Blue is slightly favored...
Ironically enough, now that the left hand has learned the cunning that was lost by the right, the right shows symptoms of returning to health. "See," says Artist Lawrence, slowly lifting his paralyzed arm, "I will soon be able to use them both...
Lueli knows that when a man loses his god it is likely that he himself will soon be lost. He grows morose. Mr. Fortune rebuilds the hut, sets things to rights, tries to encourage his acolyte. But he can accomplish nothing. Man and master are spiritually wasting away. The man's duty grows clear. He must restore Lueli...